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5.1 Introduction
Commercializing nanotechnology from laboratory to market involves innovation, adoption, and sometime integration in an existing business process. According to Steve Jobs “Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have… It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.” Dale Carnegie’s guide to innovation includes finding ideas, finding solutions, finding acceptance, implementing, following up, and evaluation.
Commercializing involves value transformation to commercial ventures creating end-to-end solutions. Innovation, adoption, and integration require certain intermediate steps including assessing technology readiness, prototyping and testing, ...
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