Mastering technology transfer : from invention to innovation : a step-by-step guide for researchers and inventors / George Vekinis.
Vekinis, George, author.
2023
T174.3
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Title
Mastering technology transfer : from invention to innovation : a step-by-step guide for researchers and inventors / George Vekinis.
Author
Vekinis, George, author.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9783031443695 (electronic bk.)
3031443691 (electronic bk.)
9783031443688
3031443683
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44369-5
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 295 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-44369-5 doi
Call Number
T174.3
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.9/26
Summary
Every innovation starts its life as an idea. It is the systematic transformation of this idea, via its manifestation as an invention, to the final innovative material, device, process, method, service, etc. that is the subject of this practical step-by-step guide. It will be very useful to anyone who has a technological idea and wishes to commercialize it. The author describes a systematic transformational process in ten distinct stages, from the birth of the idea, through its technical validation and its economic viability validation, to the final market innovation. The author correlates this process with the 'Technology Readiness Levels' which form the backbone of nearly all major R&D programs. In addition, the reader is introduced to the three critical milestones where crucial go/no-go decisions are made. A number of case studies have been added in this new edition and analyzed in some detail. This guide is based on many years of experience of the author in technology transfer activities both as a mentor and a senior consultant of the European Commission. The book includes a plethora of clear definitions and clarifications as well as valuable strategic advice and insights into many key aspects of the transformational process that will be useful to any inventor wishing to take their invention to its logical conclusion, that of a valuable product or service.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 5, 2023).
Series
Studies on entrepreneurship, structural change and industrial dynamics, 2511-2031
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Part 1: The Long Road Ahead
1. An Invention Is Not An Innovation
2. Can Every Idea Be Transformed into an Innovation?
3. What Are The Driving Forces for Innovation?
4. Can Everybody Be an Innovator?
5. The Long, Hard Road Ahead
6. The Critical Milestones
Part 2: Cloistered Creativity
7. The Birth of the Idea
8. How Do You Determine If a New Technology Has Value?- 9. Critical Milestone 1: Proof of Concept
10. Research and Development
11. Strategy for Protection and Freedom for Use
12. Critical Milestone 2: Validation of Technical Feasibility for Applications
Part 3: Maturing in the Real World
13. Out Into the Real World: Scaling Up
14. Business Planning for New Entrepreneurs
15. Critical Milestone 3: The Industrial Prototype and Validation of Economic Viability
16. A Researcher's Strategy for Technology Transfer
17. Industrialisation
18. On to the Market!
19. What Can Go Wrong?
Part 4: Case Studies in Technology Transfer
20. Case Study 1. Microwave Heating Process for Bulk Ceramics
21. Case Study 2. High-Hardness, High-Toughness, Nanostructured Coatings for Gears and Axles
22. Case Study 3. Advanced Energy Cells for Portable Power Tools and Other Devices
23. Case Study 4. Advanced Nanostructured Coatings for High-Precision Turning of Very Hard Materials
24. Case Study 5. Nanostructured Medical Preparation
25. Case Study 6. Specialist Cross Platform Interface Software
26. Case Study 7. Low Cost Inorganic Pigments
27. Case Study 8. Low Cost Contact Brushes For High Power Electric Motors
Part 5: Glory Years, Natural Decline and Renewal
28. Glory Years
29. Natural Decline And Renewal
30. Closing Remarks.

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