1) The document discusses challenges with commercializing university research and proposes a new approach using design thinking and lean startup methods.
2) Current commercialization success rates are low because research is not designed with commercialization in mind and researchers lack entrepreneurial skills.
3) The proposed approach would apply design thinking to iterate from technologies to applicable customer needs and business models in order to increase commercialization success rates. It focuses on recognizing customer jobs that could provide competitive advantage.
Technology commercialization strategy for a multidisciplinary R&D institutions such as GRO and CRO under new research and business development (R&BD) paradigm
Within universities and research institutions there are no shortage of good ideas; but not all of those ideas make commercial sense. In this lecture, we explore what makes a technology worthwhile commercializing. We also touch on some of the lessons we can take from the university setting and apply to any start-up technology.
Speaker: Raphael Ronen, Commercialization Manager, The Innovations Group (TIG)
Part of the CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 MaRS event series.
Read more on this event and catch the session video here: http://www.marsdd.com/Events/Event-Calendar/Ent101/2008/intro-tech-companies-10222008.html
There are different Strategic Innovation methodologies, frameworks and models that aid organizations, particularly with technology driven, production companies. Most companies must innovate and continually improve to maintain a competitive advantage, but how they accomplish these process improvements differs significantly from Strategic Innovation. Traditional strategies rely on process improvements and product development through lessons learned, adoption of internal and external best practices, and improvements that are incremental and nature that are often found in Total Quality Management programs. Strategic Innovation requires a culture that can create breakthroughs within a company’s current market, and potentially enter a new market or segment. Strategic Innovation, and the implementation models that follow, are not for every organization, and a review of traditional strategies and risks associated with Strategic Innovation will be covered.
Technology commercialization strategy for a multidisciplinary R&D institutions such as GRO and CRO under new research and business development (R&BD) paradigm
Within universities and research institutions there are no shortage of good ideas; but not all of those ideas make commercial sense. In this lecture, we explore what makes a technology worthwhile commercializing. We also touch on some of the lessons we can take from the university setting and apply to any start-up technology.
Speaker: Raphael Ronen, Commercialization Manager, The Innovations Group (TIG)
Part of the CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 MaRS event series.
Read more on this event and catch the session video here: http://www.marsdd.com/Events/Event-Calendar/Ent101/2008/intro-tech-companies-10222008.html
There are different Strategic Innovation methodologies, frameworks and models that aid organizations, particularly with technology driven, production companies. Most companies must innovate and continually improve to maintain a competitive advantage, but how they accomplish these process improvements differs significantly from Strategic Innovation. Traditional strategies rely on process improvements and product development through lessons learned, adoption of internal and external best practices, and improvements that are incremental and nature that are often found in Total Quality Management programs. Strategic Innovation requires a culture that can create breakthroughs within a company’s current market, and potentially enter a new market or segment. Strategic Innovation, and the implementation models that follow, are not for every organization, and a review of traditional strategies and risks associated with Strategic Innovation will be covered.
A simple pitch deck that any startup or idea can use to tell a brief, complete story. Entrepreneurs can use it to quickly share all the key parts to an idea.
From the rise of connected devices at home, to automated industrial production processes and smart mobility, digital technologies are increasingly changing how, where and when energy is consumed. The IEA’s latest report, Digitalization & Energy, is the first-ever comprehensive effort to depict how digital technologies could transform the world’s energy systems. The report examines the impact of digital technologies on energy demand sectors, looks at how energy suppliers can use digital tools to improve operations, and explores the transformational potential of digitalization to help create a highly interconnected energy system. The report also explores the wider policy implications of increasing connectivity and automation, including for energy security, energy access, employment, data ownership, and privacy. For more info, contact: digital@iea.org.
Industry and institute interface , B-School and industry Interface , Institut...mcrashidkhan
Industry and institute interface , B-School and industry Interface , Institute and Industry Interface , Prof. M C Rashid Khan
GSBA, Greater Noida, UP. mcrashidkhan@gmail.com
The management of IT carve-out projects is very challenging due to the strict time frame, the severe contractual penalties, the huge number of stakeholders and the various as well as unique IT tasks that have to be conducted. Up to now, there is no instrument for evaluating the readiness of the IT for a carve-out and also not for managing such a project. In order to address this, we develop a maturity model based on expert interviews and a literature review on success factors of IT carve-outs. The elements as well as the usage of the IT carve-out maturity model are explained. The maturity model has been evaluated
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Am one of the few people I know who has an R&D Strategy background, but you almost never can sell projects in that area unless you have a domain PhD. Most of this is from 3rd Generation R&D, written by former colleagues from Arthur D. Little, Phil Roussel, Tammy Erickson and Kamal Saad. Phil is no longer with us, great guy and good friend (always tell people, I taught him how to use a fax machine, 'Jay, how do I work this thing.' - 'Phil, put the page in there, and push that big green button.' - 'Oh, that was easy.' Safe to say, 23 years later I still have never written a cool book, but did know something he did not! This had 3 slides at the end of it that I cannot remember where they came from, think in the book but not in order.
Lecture on 18 March 2010 at Georgetown University to the Communications, Culture & Technology course on "Creating a Culture of Innovation," taught by Dr. Mike Nelson.
A simple pitch deck that any startup or idea can use to tell a brief, complete story. Entrepreneurs can use it to quickly share all the key parts to an idea.
From the rise of connected devices at home, to automated industrial production processes and smart mobility, digital technologies are increasingly changing how, where and when energy is consumed. The IEA’s latest report, Digitalization & Energy, is the first-ever comprehensive effort to depict how digital technologies could transform the world’s energy systems. The report examines the impact of digital technologies on energy demand sectors, looks at how energy suppliers can use digital tools to improve operations, and explores the transformational potential of digitalization to help create a highly interconnected energy system. The report also explores the wider policy implications of increasing connectivity and automation, including for energy security, energy access, employment, data ownership, and privacy. For more info, contact: digital@iea.org.
Industry and institute interface , B-School and industry Interface , Institut...mcrashidkhan
Industry and institute interface , B-School and industry Interface , Institute and Industry Interface , Prof. M C Rashid Khan
GSBA, Greater Noida, UP. mcrashidkhan@gmail.com
The management of IT carve-out projects is very challenging due to the strict time frame, the severe contractual penalties, the huge number of stakeholders and the various as well as unique IT tasks that have to be conducted. Up to now, there is no instrument for evaluating the readiness of the IT for a carve-out and also not for managing such a project. In order to address this, we develop a maturity model based on expert interviews and a literature review on success factors of IT carve-outs. The elements as well as the usage of the IT carve-out maturity model are explained. The maturity model has been evaluated
theoretically based on design principles and during a case study in the financial services industry. The developed maturity model can be used by practitioners for the management of IT carve-outs and also by researchers to examine IT carve-outs in empirical research.
R&D Research & Development Strategy & ManagementChief Innovation
Am one of the few people I know who has an R&D Strategy background, but you almost never can sell projects in that area unless you have a domain PhD. Most of this is from 3rd Generation R&D, written by former colleagues from Arthur D. Little, Phil Roussel, Tammy Erickson and Kamal Saad. Phil is no longer with us, great guy and good friend (always tell people, I taught him how to use a fax machine, 'Jay, how do I work this thing.' - 'Phil, put the page in there, and push that big green button.' - 'Oh, that was easy.' Safe to say, 23 years later I still have never written a cool book, but did know something he did not! This had 3 slides at the end of it that I cannot remember where they came from, think in the book but not in order.
Lecture on 18 March 2010 at Georgetown University to the Communications, Culture & Technology course on "Creating a Culture of Innovation," taught by Dr. Mike Nelson.
This is the second deck of three which defines a collaborative innovation reference model. In this deck we identify five areas of consideration whenever an innovation effort is considered: Strategic context, Insights, Go To Market, enabling infrastructure and systematic innovation processes.
An overview of why technology commercialization is important for those undertaking research in universities - insights into why the current process is broken and some insights into new apporaches.
This Slideshare presentation is a partial preview of the full business document. To view and download the full document, please go here:
http://flevy.com/browse/business-document/growth-strategy-208
All businesses face the challenge of achieving sustainable growth. Growth is commonly inhibited by a lack of breakthrough ideas, balancing cost-out and margin trade-offs, and execution challenges.
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*Traditional strategy thinking ( Porter?s Five Forces)
*Modern strategy thinking ( Blue Ocean Strategy)
*A growth strategy project initiative (project approach, design, frameworks & analytics, deliverables)
*Case examples
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1. Changing the way we approach university technology
commercialization
Dr. Andrew Maxwell P.Eng. MBA
October 2017
2. The Technology Commercialization Imperative
• Low commercialization success rates
• Most university research is not commercialized
• Research funding increasingly linked to commercialization
• Institutional culture discouraged commercialization
• Challenges of technology entrepreneurship
• Developing a strategy for a start up is challenging
• Requires unique skills and resources to achieve success
• Counter cultural for most researchers
• Missing out on potential
• Limits ability to attract research funding
• Reduces potential for future contract research
• Limits job prospects for graduates
• Reduces potential impact on regional economy
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3. Top Ten Reasons for Poor Success Rates
10. Research designed to resolve a technical problem - not commercialization
9. Researchers not motivated to achieve commercial success
8. Researchers don’t have required commercialization expertise
7. Flawed assumptions about technology features and applications
6. Flawed assumptions about initial customers and their adoption decisions
Funding
Initial
Concept /
Research
Funding
Follow-on
Research
(Technical)
Funding
Attempt to
License /
Sell
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4. 5. Commercialization process only starts after the research is finished
4. Incorrect assumptions about the business model likely to succeed
3. Commercialization is a function under taken by TTOs not innovators
2. Technology design does not sufficiently consider customer needs
1. Limited resources to reduce technology risk before customer adoption
Funding
Initial
Concept /
Research
Funding
Follow-on
Research
(Technical)
Funding
Attempt to
License /
Sell
Top Ten Reasons for Poor Success Rates (contd)
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6. Using Technology As a Source of Competitive Advantage
Design ThinkingTechnology Centric
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7. Increase technology commercialization success rates
Our approach offers a structured process to apply design thinking to…
…iterate from technologies and competencies to…
…recognize (diverge) and prioritize/select (converge)…
…applicable customer jobs/needs as well as…
…viable go-to-market paths and business models
1. Technology to
Jobs
2. Jobs to Value
Proposition
3. Value
Proposition to
Go-to-Market
4. Go-to-Market
to Business
Models
Technology-Driven, Customer-Centric
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8. Creative Problem Solving
Process (CPS)
Design Thinking
StageGate
Real Options,
Portfolio Approaches
Jobs-to-be-Done
Innovation Adoption
&-Diffusion,
Behaviors
Lean Startup
Epicenters of
Innovation,
Business Models
Approaches used at different stage of innovation journey
Competitive Advantage
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10. Create commercialization roadmaps with sustainable competitive advantage:
• Starts by asserting technology innovation provides competitive advantage
• Identifies potential applications where this advantage is greatest
• Focusses on specific customer ‘segments’ most likely to be early adopters
• Develops value propositions to understand motivation to adopt
• Investigates multiple stakeholders to identify barriers to adoption
• Examines alternate offerings and business models to overcame adoption barriers
• At each stage offers decision framework to: pivot, proceed, or park technology
• It helps focus time and resources on activities more likely to succeed
Blended approach that integrates:
Technology Advantage with Customer Needs/Behaviours
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12. Quadrupling the impact of our technology research
Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology
Dr. Andrew Maxwell P.Eng
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurial Engineering
Director BEST
Technology Commercialization Institute
https://tinyurl.com/y8k6q3a6
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Editor's Notes
Technology solution seen as outcome, not first stage in commercialization process
Technology commercialization viewed simplistically (great technology sells itself)
Research addresses technical issues, not holistic customer needs
Culture in universities values publications over societal impact
Perspective that technical expertise all that is required for successful outcome
Limited potential users/customers interactions during development process
Narrow view of: technology applications, markets, offerings & business models
Over reliance on innovator (limited experience, research career focus ) to drive commercialization (exacerbated in the case of venture creation)
Limited understanding of customer discovery process reduces potential impact (People don't know what they want until you show it to them – Steve Jobs)
Ignores profound technology advances that can offer radical solutions
Limited understanding of technology’s role in creating competitive advantage
Identifies market opportunity, but ignores ‘Why You?’ are the best to address
Difficult to create a sustainable business, when larger companies see opportunity
Building critical technology capabilities/expertise viewed as an afterthought
Fails to integrate the technology and business development
Can oversimplify customer need and adoption motivation and barriers
Improve Likelihood of Technology Commercialization Success
Develop a structured, & scalable (divergent-convergent) approach to guide the process
Offer an array of creative problem solving tools to navigate and help pivot at each stage
Leverage relevant research and leverage existing perspectives/best practices
Transform Participant Thinking and Challenge Commercialization Assumptions
Focus on the importance of using technology expertise to create competitive advantage
Challenge assumptions about the jobs the technology can do (applications) and for whom
Encourage experimentation, use evidence to make decisions to continue, fail fast or pivot
Create Experiential and Collaborative Learning Opportunities
Connect: technologists, business people, academics, students, alumni & stakeholders
Encourage technology development and market validation activities to continue in parallel
Increase understanding of how to overcome innovation inertia and barriers to adoption
TechConnect is essentially an iterative Creative Problem Solving process, following Basadur. It disconnects assumptions about the solution from the problem, and embeds diverging and converging stages through a learning journey.
TechConnect is an approach that leverages the epicenters of innovation Business Models (Osterwalder) using the resource based approach. It also uses the Business Model Canvas itself to examine different aspects of the go to market strategy – using different factors of the business model.
TechConnect focusses on creating value proposition sufficient to motivation adoption. It uses Moore and Rogers frameworks to both understand the value proposition, and identify (and then overcome) barriers to adoption.
The basic design philosophy (IDEO) is an integral part of the overall framework, developing business strategies that leverage core competencies to create competitive advantage (Porter). In addition, it uses a design thinking approach - specifically empathy, as it seeks to identify the specific motivations of different stakeholders (based on Miller Heiman) involved in the decision to buy or adopt.
The essential elements of the Lean StartUp (Ries) are core to the development of a process that is designed to both fail fast, and increase the likelihood of commercial success. At each stage, we embed two aspects of Lean StartUp, (1) what is the hypothesis that needs testing before moving to the next stage of the process and what is the lowest cost and fastest way to test this. Linked to this (2) it requires decisions to be made on evidence by talking to experts, users, influencers, and personas to validate assumptions or test hypotheses at each stage.
There are a number of tools used at the stage of identifying what other ”jobs” the technology might do….essentially this includes an profound understanding of the jobs to be done framework (Christensen, Ulwick), as well as PEST analysis, new points of differentiation (MacMillan and McGrath), and business ecosystem analysis.
The approach also relies on a sequential elimination process, based on StageGate (Cooper), which includes a series of go/no-go decisions, voice of the customer, and constant process improvement. This approach allows us to develop a portfolio approach to innovation, using real Options, where each opportunity is viewed as an option to continue with the project or not (Cooper).