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The “Valley of Death” between an early-stage academic discovery and a commercial-scale corporate demonstration is littered with failed partnerships.
In my experience scaling technology from early technology readiness levels (TRLs) into dem...
From my previous five posts, I have highlighted the broken mechanics of the modern innovation ecosystem. I explored how front-heavy IP negotiations destroy trust, how the venture capital startup model is structurally incompatible with the r...
In the corporate R&D world, there is a pervasive and expensive myth: the “turnkey deliverable.”
When a company sponsors academic research, the commercial and legal teams obsess over securing exclusive Intellectual Property rights, while th...
In my experience, discussions around the energy transition, company leaders obsess over items like: capital expenditures, IP frameworks and how to scale climate technology. But we frequently overlook the most binding constraint of all: huma...
We have an infrastructure pipeline problem in the United States. The U.S. innovation ecosystem has been world-class at two things: funding fundamental, laboratory-scale science (Technology Readiness Levels 1–4), and deploying capital at sca...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Dr. Shaffiq Jaffer, FCAE, FCIC, is an engineering leader focused on sustainable energy. Formerly VP at TotalEnergies, he specializes in decarbonization, hydrogen, and AI-driven materials discovery to accelerate the low-carbon transition.
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