Friedberg: Commercial breakthroughs are nonlinear to primary scientific research
Dave Friedberg · Anything Is Possible with Dave Friedberg | Where It Happens · Mar 3, 2022 · at 6:14
Dave Friedberg, founder of venture foundry The Production Board, discusses how to turn deep scientific discoveries into commercial enterprises.
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“My observation has been that many scientists that are working in primary research, they're really focused on that problem in front of them. You know, how do I identify and evolve the science? But typically the application that can transform the market is nonlinear to where they're thinking and where they're looking. And often that requires an understanding of the markets themselves, meaning like, how do you actually take that discovery combined with several other points of view? To form a novel business concept and a novel strategy that can go and change that market.”
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