Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration overseeing the new station have said they are open to commercializing much of the new space outpost.
Recognizing the city's failure to commercialize much of the scientific research done at its academic institutions, city officials this decade began an initiative to expand the bioscience industry beyond pharmaceuticals by creating commercial laboratory space.
On the other side of the investment spectrum are shorter-term bets that, with any luck, can be commercialized much more quickly.
VRB Power Systems, which purchased the rights to commercialize the batteries in much of the world, has built a dozen pre-commercial battery systems and placed them with key customers for evaluation.
The local stations, by selling off their Sunday-morning air time, had permitted those evangelists with no scruples about commercializing religion to drive much of the other clergy — Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish — off the air.
So much of Easter has become commercialized, mass-produced, crapola--a far cry from Easter's original ode to nature and rebirth.
While universities pump out a ton of research on fish farming, much of it doesn't get commercialized, and the duo didn't want to be locked into one bet.
In Korea, by contrast, artists and entertainers thrive in a space that is highly commercialized but also pretty much free of the heavy hand of the state," Delury told me, adding, "I kid government officials that the moment they understand why K-pop is so successful and try to replicate it, they will destroy it".
Technologies developed in the United States and commercialized around the world produce ethanol from wood waste, paper and much of what ends up in landfills.
"Every neighborhood that gets famous gets commercialized," said Mr. Shapiro of Social Tees.
