How does the program work?

  • Initial Consultation: Share your research concept or innovation with our team; we’ll help you refine it.
  • Business Driver Identification: We help find you the right business or operating partner (if needed). Sometimes, we begin with an internal RA or staff member to do preliminary research or an IQSS EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) before moving to a more full-time professional once the venture has spun out.
  • Deep Dive: You and your Business Driver explore the research's commercial potential. (This is how you might work with a grad student or postdoc: you provide wisdom, they do the homework, and you both learn from the experience.)
  • Market Research: Your Business Driver investigates industry applications and brings findings to you.
  • Customer Discovery: Together or led by your Business Driver, conversations with potential users refine the concept.
  • Mentorship & Networking: Access to our network of industry experts and entrepreneurs.
  • Go-to-Market Strategy: Development of a commercialization pathway, whether through venture funding, customer contracts, or direct market entry.
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