Syndicate Innovation Venturing: Translating Academic Innovations into Commercial Successes

Syndicate Innovation Venturing: Translating Academic Innovations into Commercial Successes

Innovations that initiate new technology cycles, i.e., radical innovations, bring tremendous value to Society and build for the companies that deploy them sustainable competitive advantages. However, large firms have typically been relatively inefficient at accessing from academia or technology start-ups such technological leaps. Indeed, most multiyear and multimillion dollar academia-industry ...

Venturing into the storm.

Estimates of the incidence of electrical storm (ES) range from 4% over 20.6 months of follow-up in patients with primary prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs)1 to 20% over 31 months of follow-up in a population with secondary prophylactic ICDs.2 Although smaller observational series have not identified a clear mortality risk associated with ES,3,4 larger and more recent se...

On the Challenges of Translating NLP Research into Commercial Products

This paper highlights challenges in industrial research related to translating research in natural language processing into commercial products. While the interest in natural language processing from industry is significant, the transfer of research to commercial products is non-trivial and its challenges are often unknown to or underestimated by many researchers. I discuss current obstacles an...

Challenges in Translating Academic Research into Therapeutic Advancement

any project should be conducted considering the ultimate target of every study: the human being. Unreal situations or vague advances that do not reflect reliable patterns of “improvement” could be re-designed to be smart and feasible studies. For example, the common phrases in academic research such as “positive effects” or “preclinical and clinical evidence” become “efficient, safe, and commer...

Best Practices in Hiv Prevention: Translating Innovation into Action