Some, like personal genome sequencer Knome and industrial gene sequencer Complete Genomics, focus on commercializing his sequencing work.
He has also just left his academic day job to focus on commercializing the pro-privacy, decentralized web platform he's been building at MIT for years — via a new startup, called Inrupt.
They've raised an $800,000 (Canadian) seed round from TandemLaunch, a Montreal-based incubator that focuses on commercializing research.
Since taking the reins as chief executive of Kindred at the beginning of the year, Jim Liefer has been focused on commercializing his company's autonomous robots.
The company is focusing on commercializing unique generic products and pioneering synergistic combination products in the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular diseases, dermatology, pediatric, ophthalmology, nephrology, analgesics, anti-histaminic, anti-biotic, GI tract, anti-TB and gynecology.
"It is harder to raise funding, and entrepreneurs are less focused on commercializing new ideas than in the U.S. It is also difficult for small entrepreneurial companies to gain entry to big global banks," he noted.
Prieto Battery, a 3-D advanced battery provider "focused on commercializing a patented Lithium-ion battery technology that delivers transformational performance at a competitive cost using non-toxic materials with the ability to customize shapes".
Watson had trouble making money, but IBM announced one year ago that it will invest more than $1 billion in Watson Group, a business unit focused on commercializing the supercomputer's capabilities by developing software and apps.
Already a chemical company, Arkema, is working on commercializing the process.
These investigators are combining basic scientific research with an intense focus on developing applications, commercializing them, and training the workforce that will be necessary to support them.
