to excel at managing a company and have all of the skills needed for that—that’s asking a lot. Some faculty have both sets of skills already, but we generally encourage faculty to focus on the technical side of things even as they move toward commercialization. We often encourage the researchers/inventors to become the CTO Chief Technology Officer (CTO) or Chief Science Officer (CSO) of the company they helped found, and we help them find a career-entrepreneur to run the company as CEO. J: So…
mastery of innovation is the ability to get great ideas out into the market so that they can deliver value for paying customers, with consistency and predictability (Radeka, 2013). The engine of an economy is innovation in product development and commercialization…
Using Wallace Nutting as a tool to discuss anti-modernism, Denenberg explores the various ways Nutting incorporated the neo-colonial lifestyle into a mainstream cult following in the early 1900’s. Wallace Nutting was chiefly interested in the commercialization of photography. Nutting saw that photography was geared to an upper class set due to the expense of the equipment and services. His attention to the medium stemmed from a personal enjoyment of photography. Nutting started as a hobbyist…
scientific advance and forward movement of human society, it brings us more risks and harms than benefits. He predicts that biotechnology will be misused and even abused in the near future to bring human beings unimaginative harms. Also, further commercialization is a problem leading to some undesirable outcomes. In my opinion, his worries are somewhat unnecessary and some of his…
From his first film to last, Soderbergh has made a name for himself in his careers. His outside the box cinematics are what set him apart from other mainstream directors. Soderbergh started out as an indie film maker and has gone one to make blockbusters with top A-list actors and actresses. Taking a closer look at three of his films, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Out of Sight and The Good German, has Soderbergh moved away from being an idea filmmaker. Indie films, short for Independent films are…
serve as a Principal Investigator of the Incubator 11 project. He has many years of experience in technology development, and previously served as PI in NSF and DOE funded projects. The DOE SBIR Phase I and II programs provided seed funding for commercialization of UST’s Resonance Ultrasonic Vibration (RUV) system for solar and fuel cell applications [7, 8]. Proprietary RUV technology [9] was initially developed for photovoltaic…
the main arguments Münkler highlights as the prominent features of the twenty-first century and how such wars, constitute as ‘new wars’. The author explores three key features: asymmetry, demilitarization and the return of privatization and commercialization since the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first section of this article review will outline Münkler’s article and summaries the key areas of which he focuses on. The second section of this article review will focus on identifying…
Hip hop is a subcultural movement that originated in the early 1970’s by groups of young African-American, Latino, and Caribbean teenagers living in South Bronx, New York City. Though it made its way towards the western coast of the United States of America, Hip hop did not gain popularity until the 1980’s. It can be divided into four sub-groups. Each of these groups represent hip hop in a unique way. In terms of orality, hip hop heavily relies on rap music, which involves speech, writing, and…
Commercial use in the space industry is expanding in the Twenty-First Century and corporations are determined to invest their money in it. This private sector is expanding so, there are parties that criticize the exploration of commercial use. However, there are beneficial results if companies fund toward this industry. Big corporations such as Boeing and SpaceX have partnered up with NASA and their projects providing major outcomes and a flourish within the age of commercial space programs. The…
motivation however the artists used were being commissioned. “Street cred is a convincing command or display of the style, fashions, knowledge etc associated with urban counterculture “ Collins Dictionary, 2014. This union has lead to the commercialization of street credibility.…