"By bridging the gap between research and development and commercialization, Masdar can provide an opportunity for scale-up of technologies that address water access".
I've also asked how The Engine will work with existing university commercialization and IP infrastructure — that can be very tricky.
From the data it appears that both entrepreneurial passion and presentation design does influence expert assessment of a technology, and future commercialization success can be predicted to some extent by the level of entrepreneurial passion exhibited during the presentation.
You can hear very similar arguments made today about funding, commercialization and patenting, so maybe we can learn something useful about drug discovery from the history of penicillin? 1. Use a public/private partnership.
The rational development and commercialization of MES can be achieved at a faster pace if the research data and findings are reported in appropriate and uniformly accepted ways.
The key issue is that how this gap between IP generation and its commercialization can be reduced.
The wound that is being created and perpetuated by our cultural distortion and commercialization of female sexuality needs to be -- and can be -- stopped.
Participation in the commercialization process can threaten academic freedom (Nelson 2004) and create difficulties in fundamental research and publication activities (Arvanitis et al. 2008).
The task of seeking protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) created in the course of research and the commercialization of inventions can become costly, tedious, and, at times, not even viable because of the time lag from the bench to the marketplace.
Also, research commercialization initiatives can, in theory, generate interest and investment in emerging areas of research, with consequent gains or improvements in research funding, job creation, scope and quality of innovation, creation and growth of industries, and economic sustainability of universities [ 3, 18, 19].
