First-time academic entrepreneurs often ask themselves if their work is at a stage where it is ready to make the leap into a company. “It’s not always an easy question to answer,” University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna says. She tells her students that their science could move into a company setting when proving that an idea or technology can solve a real-world problem requires resources not typically available in academia. She emphasizes that part about solving real problems, a metric that can help define whether a project is enough to become the basis for a company. If […]
