"This is nothing more than corporate graffiti," said Vanessa Gruen, director of special projects for the Municipal Art Society, a civic organization that has long battled commercialization of public space.
La is part of an NSF Innovation Corps Team that has completed more than 160 customer interviews, helping him focus on customer uses as the research team finalizes their designs and thinks about the long-term commercialization of the technology.
Navratilova's declared lesbianism and habit of political outspokenness long ago made commercialization as likely a career path as space travel.
Chinese banks are still a long way from commercialization, though, some analysts say.
They're a long way from commercialization, but Padmanaban suggested that some manufacturers are already looking into this type of method and despite its early stage, it's highly promising.
Although the white QD-LED has a long way to commercialization and even cannot compete with white LED using QD as phosphor, it also has its unique potential in terms of offering large area and flexible lighting source which will render it an interesting direction to be explored in the next few decades.
However, all technical signs point to commercialization long into the future.
"We're getting to the point of one long, seamless commercial with a few scattered scenes in between," said Gary Ruskin, director of Commercial Alert, an organization in Washington that fights what it considers to be the relentless commercialization of culture.
Though Miller had long griped about the commercialization and corporatization of skiing, his tenure at this plutocrats' playground was, in addition to a ski-bum fairy tale, a fitting and somewhat bittersweet reflection of the one-per-centing of the sport.
Biotechnology projects often face long regulatory hurdles before commercialization, while "…71% of electronics applications are expected to earn revenues within two years after ATP funding ends" (p. 6 in Powell and Morris 2002).
