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Sourced reads on R&D partnerships, university-industry collaboration, and the operating mechanics of bringing research to market.
How to evaluate a research partner: fit beats prestige
Ask any research group how they found their most recent project partner and you'll usually hear a story about a person, not a process. A faculty member knew someone from a conference. An alumnus made an introduction. A company emailed the one professor whose paper they'd read. Our primary research found exactly this p
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Why most university-industry R&D partnerships fail from infrastructure, not science
I have spent 18 years across the R&D-to-commercialization lifecycle, in more roles than most: chemical engineer, principal investigator, business developer, contract negotiator, and portfolio manager for tens of millions of dollars in R&D investment bridging universities, corporations and startups, national labs, and g
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