These efforts included serving as a director of commercialization for fuel cell development for General Motors, where he closed the world's largest fuel cell commercialization deal with Dow Chemical and developed a fleet of fuel cell vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service.
They hired me to be the director of commercialization in 2002, and it was a tremendous job.
"Data very clearly supports our statement that chemical usage has not increased in any significant fashion even though production [of corn] has increased," says Geoff Cooper, director of commercialization and business development with the National Corn Growers Association.
Two hydrogen-powered versions of the Chevrolet Equinox sport utility vehicle are now on Westchester roads as part of G.M.'s Project Driveway, which aims to lend 100 fuel-cell vehicles free to consumers in New York, Washington and Los Angeles over the next three years, said Daniel O'Connell, G.M.'s director of fuel-cell commercialization.
The office is relatively small in comparison to similar offices in Canadian universities and operates with three people--G.G.H. (Jerry Grayy as director, Scott Inwood as the commercialization associate, and Audrey Babensee, who performs the role of administrative assistant.
"We believe that the show violates several of the few existing rules we have to protect children from over-commercialization," said Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a nonprofit group.
Local and provincial government support has been essential for the industry's development, according to Susan Crowley, executive director of the London Biotechnology Commercialization Centre (LBCC), the group overseeing the LBI project.
Alan Paau, the executive director of the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization, which last year reported 338 new inventions and launched 12 new companies, says he encourages professors to think entrepreneurially.
But only 3 of the 23 members of the ARPA-E leadership team are women -- and none are program directors (one is an assistant director), none is on the commercialization side, and none is in budgeting.
Because the ultimate goal of any technology transfer office is to successfully transfer university technologies to the commercial marketplace, as director I work daily in close association with the TTLO commercialization associate.
Col. F. Don Miller, executive director of USOC, denies there is commercialization of the Games & deplores low govt. funding.
