Guiding inventions from lab to market

From the lab to the market.

About the speaker Invited speaker Mark W. Wilson has over 30‐years of experience developing and launching a variety of new products from the napkinsketch level, including navigational interactions with nearly 500 preseed‐stage research technologies and over $1B in corporate medical devices.

APPLICATION P - Ink and Elast - Ink from lab to market

Where it all began Since the announcement a decade ago by Sajeev John1 in the Physics Department at the University of Toronto that ‘silicon inverse opal’ could theoretically display a complete photonic bandgap at optical telecoms wavelengths, followed soon after by the first self-assembly synthesis of silicon inverse opal, and confirmation, by our research group2, of John’s predictions, many sc...

In the Market for Technological Inventions

How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur’s decision to pursue either disclosure—where investors inspect the invention—or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary deferral, royalty-based license)—where an invention’s value is inferred from the entrepreneur’s willingness to make her pay contingent on the invention’s suc...

Guiding Philosophies for Running a Lab

I think that an underappreciated factor in succeeding as a principal investigator is getting the lab’s internal culture right. For my lab, the goal is an environment that is highly collaborative, e.g., with open sharing and recombination of raw ideas into better ideas. We havemanaged to maintain a highly collegial, drama-free environment over these past 7 years, but as the lab has gotten bigger...

Entrepreneurial Optimism in the Market for Technological Inventions