A network- based view of the University Technology Transfer: boosting the go-to-market of innovation with the NSF I-Corps
Universities are important hubs and drivers of innovation and
technology, but many inventions remain embryonic in nature: this implies that they
need further development before their commercial value or potential can become
imminent or evident, and one of the reasons why this has happened is a certain
myopia in the governmental funds policies, that fund early stage products’ concept
without focusing of the users’ insights as well as the creation if a stakeholders’
network to make the product more viable to commercialization. The I-Corps, with