The commercialization will "drive thangkas far from their origins, from their use as religious objects," said Zhang Yasha, a teacher of fine arts at the Minzu University of China who specializes in Tibet.
"You may find that it was not worth subverting the entire scientific enterprise — and my understanding was that the intended goal of C.P.R.I.T. was to fund the best cancer research in Texas — on account of this ostensibly new, politically driven, commercialization-based mission," Dr. Dynlacht wrote in his letter.
Another scientist who resigned, Bryan Dynlacht, said a "new, politically driven, commercialization-based mission" could "subvert the entire scientific enterprise," the AP reported.
By contrast, patenting is driven by commercialization motives, and standardization is mainly fostered by intrinsic motivation.
Those characteristics made it possible to give windows and such ordinary objects as backpacks and handbags the ability to serve as inexpensive power generators, and they were helping to drive commercialization of the technology.
Turning research into product is one of the institute's key components, working to "leverage [its] internal business development team, intellectual property experts, and entrepreneurs-in-residence to drive commercialization, through industrial partnerships and the creation of startups," according to its mission statement.
Stern's reverence for the dollar, which has driven his relentless commercialization of professional basketball and of each of the N.B.A. arenas, is now a matter of grim record.
It's unclear who is responsible for flying the drones but the commercialization of drone technology has driven down costs, putting the ability to buzz a nuclear facility within reach of far more people.
Geopolitical factors have strongly driven the research, as has commercialization of cellulosic biofuels in the past 7 years in North and South America, Europe, and China.
Improvements in enzyme cocktails for converting biomass have driven down costs for production of bioproducts and have allowed commercialization of the first cellulosic biorefineries.
Early records of overfishing and depletion of coastal resources become evident during Roman and medieval times and are driven by human population growth and increasing demand and the increasing commercialization and trade of food and products [113], [115].
