Resumen de Seeding and harvesting the innovation gap: linking technology to social and market needs
R. Scott Evans, Luz Cristal S. Glangchai, S. P. Nichols
The Technology Innovation Mapping (TIM) Tool assists commercialization efforts and students studying product development andtechnology commercialization by linking the features of a technology to specific social needs (a term in broad perspective that includestechnology commercialization used both for profit and not-for-profit applications), thus addressing the innovation gap betweenlaboratory research and business incubators. This paper further develops the methodology; it summarizes the TIM Tool method andexpands upon the TIM Tool to better capture the commercialization process for innovative technologies. The paper uses the applicationof a nano-scale drug delivery technology (advanced by a graduate student team) as a technology commercialization example.
