Overview
- Provides a detailed plan for turning an invention into a valuable innovation and product or service
- Features many practical case studies, including lessons learned from failures
- Provides succinct and clear explanations of strategic aspects of the transformation process
Part of the book series: Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics (ESID)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mastering Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation
Book Subtitle: A Step-by-Step Guide for Researchers and Inventors
Authors: George Vekinis
Series Title: Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44369-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44368-8Published: 26 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44371-8Due: 24 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44369-5Published: 25 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2511-2023
Series E-ISSN: 2511-2031
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIX, 295
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Higher Education, Entrepreneurship