The first time I asked researchers at one of China’s academic research institutions “What do you think are the challenges to commercializing your discoveries?” I had no idea what to expect. I thought that if the ideas of technology transfer and commercializing academic research were not even on their radar screen, I was in store for a series of very short conversations! I was relieved, therefore, to find that researchers and administrators I met at institutions across China all seemed to have thought about the topic, and all seemed inspired to commercialize. But the experiences they conveyed were very different.
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