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Accelerating Early-Stage Innovations for Market
Advancing Innovation Along the Long Tail
Laura Dorival Paglione, Director, Kauffman Innovation Network, discusses moving away from narrow markets ruled by "the tyranny of the hit" (the old focus on best-sellers) to focus on the "long tail" markets where non-hits and specialty goods can flourish as well.
Beyond Licensing and Incubators
After years of studying how innovation works (or fails to work) in and around universities, says Lesa Mitchell, Vice President, Advancing Innovation, the Kauffman Foundation is finding emerging new solutions to accelerate innovation and commercialization at universities.
How a Dose of Reality Can Make Science More Visionary
E. A. Fitzgerald, Professor of Materials Engineering, MIT, asks How do we know that university scientists are working on the best possible research projects to begin with? The ones with the greatest chances of bearing the most fruit?
Video Insights from Lesa Mitchell
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See Lesa Mitchell provide insights into the Kauffman Foundation's work in Advancing Innovation. The Insights section of our Multmedia Center features the thoughtful observations of Kauffman associates on a wide range of topics. These video highlights capture the Kauffman approach to think differently and turn ideas into practical, sustainable solutions.
A conversation with Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Our nation’s universities produce some of the most important basic and applied research in the world, contributing to America’s competitiveness and prosperity in the global economy. University spinoff companies have the potential to become high-growth firms, in some cases creating entire new industries that not only change our lives but also generate hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Nicholas Donofrio, Kauffman Senior Fellow and retired executive vice president of Innovation and Technology, IBM, believes the innovations that matter now are the ones that unlock the hidden value that exists at the intersection of deep knowledge of a problem and intimate knowledge of a market.
