Seeding and harvesting the innovation gap: linking technology to social and market needs

• Autores: R. Scott Evans, Luz Cristal S. Glangchai, S. P. Nichols
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 26, no. Extra 4, 2010, págs. 1018-1026
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Technology Innovation Mapping (TIM) Tool assists commercialization efforts and students studying product development andtechnology commercialization by linking the features of a technology to specific social needs (a term in broad perspective that includestechnology commercialization used both for profit and not-for-profit applications), thus addressing the innovation gap betweenlaboratory research and business incubators. This paper further develops the methodology; it summarizes the TIM Tool method andexpands upon the TIM Tool to better capture the commercialization process for innovative technologies. The paper uses the applicationof a nano-scale drug delivery technology (advanced by a graduate student team) as a technology commercialization example.