"Put simply, the problem mostly lies in the rising resistance of the public to G.M.O.s, which has made the political leadership hesitant to go ahead with commercialization," Cong Cao, an expert in China's science policy at the University of Nottingham, in the United Kingdom, told me.
Rick Eckstein is a sociology professor at Villanova University and a nationally recognized expert on the commercialization of youth sports and the economics of higher education.
Jandhyala worked with experts from the university commercialization center, who taught his group best practices for intellectual property protection including how to present and publish their results.
This month, the Expert Panel on the Commercialization of University Research reported its recommendations on research commercialization to the prime minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology.
But such imperfections might be ironed out as a product moves to commercialization, says Janos Veres, a flexible electronics expert at PARC, a research institution in Palo Alto, California.
Engaged in highly relevant, exciting R&D, postdocs seem to have anticipated the newest trend of industry-university collaboration (made even more apparent with the recent release of the report of the Expert Panel on the Commercialization of University Research by the ACST).
Increasing the role academic institutions play in the translation process, connecting research scientists with experts in process development and commercialization, and establishing academic industry partnerships, will encourage successful translation of biomaterials to clinical applications.
When experts cite possible harm from the commercialization of laser enrichment, they often point to Iran.
