To bridge the Valley of Death: ensure research is properly prepared for commercialisation. And the way to do that? Take the responsibility for technology transfer out of the hands of universities and place it with independent, commercial bodies that have the requisite commercial skills.
This is the view of leading scientist and entrepreneur Greg Winter, who made the case as one of the 130 individual researchers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, movers and shakers of science policy, companies from start-ups to multinationals, funding bodies and other organisations, that gave evidence to a UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee investigation into the Valley of Death.
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