Promoting Innovation and Speeding Adoption
Speaker
Dan Abraham
Assistant Director, Physical Sciences Technology Transfer at NYU Technology Opportunities and Ventures
Title
"Promoting Innovation and Speeding Adoption"
Abstract
“Build it and they will come” is a risky strategy. It is not always a given that great discoveries are put into practice. Technology commercialization sits at the nexus of discovery, development, markets and intellectual property. It is by nature cross-disciplinary, the challenges unique and often open-ended. In this talk we explore ways to innovate with an eye toward commercial application and maximizing success. With consideration of the challenges revealed by complete go-to-market solutions - pain points, bottlenecks and competition can be anticipated and addressed. I’ll draw from my own experience and observations, for example in magnetic data storage, culminating in widespread proliferation of spintronic technologies as well as others that are market-makers or now coming to fruition.
In this paradigm, NYU’s world-class expertise is partnering with IEEE in offering to the entire wireless communications industry a commercial platform for accessing and analyzing wireless propagation data that is in demand for next generation systems. I will present the project, “Wireless Commercialization Initiative”, as well as benefits to both the industry and NYU. We believe this can serve as a model for promoting innovation and commercial adoption of other technologies developed at NYU.
About Speaker
Dan Abraham, Ph.D. serves as Assistant Director, Physical Sciences Technology Transfer at NYU Technology Opportunities and Ventures. Previously Dan served as Vice President, Science and Business Strategy for MPEG LA, a leading IP Pool Administrator; Director of Licensing at Columbia Technology Ventures; Vice President of GE Technology Development and Vice President, R&D of Veeco Instruments. Dan has a Ph.d, in physics from University of California, Irvine and has conducted nanostructured materials research at IBM, Zurich and University of Nijmegen (NL).