Commercializing Innovation: Turning Technology Breakthroughs into Products

Acknowledgments

The complete list of important people is long. Some of the special folks who helped with the journey of creating this text include:

• Professor Ed Roberts at the MIT Sloan School of Management, whose unabashed enthusiasm for reporting on his research on MIT spin-off companies and entrepreneurship set the classroom stage that helped enable my career in early stage ventures.
• Art Parthe (deceased), co-founder of the MIT Enterprise Forum and Engineering Group Leader at Draper. His utter belief in “can do” set the pace for astonishing accomplishments that finally led to the development of flight-control systems capable of landing a man on the moon.
• Bob McCray, founder of Worcester Controls and former Director of my company, Phoenix ...