Commercialization fellowships help get more innovations off the shelf

摘要

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on commercialization-focused fellowship programs. While this installment focuses on preparing and nurturing postdoc fellows for start-ups, next month look for Part 2 focusing on fellowships designed to recruit and train TTO staff. Many good ideas are born in university labs. However, the road from an idea to commercialization is fraught with many pitfalls. In some cases, a valuable idea may languish in a lab for lack of an available entrepreneurial scientist to take it further. To help overcome that gap, a number of universities are creating commercialization fellowship programs.