Prioritizing the Good Stuff
By: Dr. Phyllis Speser, Foresight Founder There is a presumption in the tech transfer and commercialization world that the good stuff is the stuff that will have market traction and thus make you money. That is because the metrics we use to measure success are primarily financial. One example: Here is the first sentence from […]
Review of Ron Adners “The Wide Lens”
By: Don Marioni, Senior Foresight Board Member This short book is a timely and focused guide to navigating the choppy channels of 21st century commerce and bringing new technology-based products to market. It is simply written for everyman, presents a step-by-step approach to implementation of the principles espoused and includes a rich field of vivid […]
FLC National Meeting 2016
By: Norton Kaplan, Foresight President & COO I attended the FLC National Meeting this year which was hosted in Chicago. While there, I was engaged in an interesting conversation concerning the shrinking budgets of some of the Government Labs and the effect it has on technology licensing. The conversation included a Government Lab Manager, a […]
Pitching to Industry: Fast Track to Market Competition – May 10, 2016
By: Dan Satinsky, VP of Business Development NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) is pushing technology commercialization in new, creative ways through its first-ever “Fast Track to Market Competition.” Conceived by Foresight Science & Technology, LaRC’s technology commercialization support contractor, the Office of Innovation at the Office of Strategic Analysis, Communications and Business Development (OSACB) solicited technologies […]
Protecting Assets which are Not Property
By: Phyllis Speser, CEO The SARIMA (South African Research & Innovation Management Association) meeting began today in Durban South Africa with a fascinating session on Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS) and biodiversity and the protection of native African knowledge, plant, and animal resources. A key challenge for protection is how to wrap communal resources into Western-inspired […]
Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Trust
By: Alyssa Nacewicz, Director of Sales & Marketing Last week, Foresight sponsored and hosted a booth at the ASTP-Proton Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Among the number of sessions and events I attended while there, some comments from the opening plenary really stood out for me. One of the speakers, Soren Frandsen (Chairman, Danish National […]
TechConnect 2016 Panel
By: Norton Kaplan, President I was invited to be a panel member of “Taking Environmental Technologies to Market: SBIR EPA and People, Prosperity & the Planet (P3) Special Session” at TechConnect 2016, Washington, DC. EPA’s P3 Program is a unique college competition for designing solutions for a sustainable future. The panel included the P3 Program […]
Dinner In China
By Phyllis Speser, CEO Wherever you are, much of the real business takes place over coffee and meals. Here in China that has been raised to an art form. Here I am at a dinner with the mayor of Qingdao, the city best known in America for Tsingtao beer. Seating is important, as the closer […]
Impressions of Shanghai
By: Phyllis Speser, CEO If there was ever doubt over what “threat” the Chinese offer to Western technological dominance, shanghai puts stereotypes to bed. It’s big, it’s new, it’s bustling, and it’s beautiful. The architecture is breathtaking — literally. You see creativity like this elsewhere in Asia, but here is not just the buildings which […]
2nd International IP Monetization and Commercialization Forum
By: Thom Abbott, Business Development Director- Asia Foresight’s CEO, Dr. Phyl Speser, was an invited speaker at The 2nd International IP Monetization and Commercialization Forum 2016 in Suzhou, China June 26-27th, 2016. This event was an opportunity for Foresight to learn more about the Chinese market and get a feel for the appetite of various players, academic, […]