It’s an exhausting and fraught process translating novel science through to the market, but before the process can even get underway, academics must be tempted to move out of their comfort zone and encouraged to focus on the commercial potential of their research.
This aspect of technology transfer continues to be a struggle, according to one of the veterans of the field, Eleanor Mitchell, describing the approach taken by the commercialisation body Scottish Enterprise in supporting academics to take technology out the lab and onto the marketplace.
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