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Record W2883548875 · doi:10.1055/s-0038-1644974

How to Succeed as an Academic Entrepreneur

2018· article· en· W2883548875 on OpenAlexaff
Douglas J. McCauley

Bibliographic record

VenuePlanta Medica International Open · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicEntrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommercializationWork (physics)Government (linguistics)ScarcityPublic relationsPolitical scienceMarketingManagementBusinessEngineeringEconomics

Abstract

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With a scarcity of job options beyond the post-doctoral level, a growing number of researchers now see commercialization of their work as a viable career path. In fact, with the government and universities alike encouraging researchers to take their insight out of the lab and into the commercial sector, even those ensconced in faculty positions now regularly consider options beyond publication in academic journals. The benefits of learning how to navigate the commercialization process gives researchers new ways to build their reputations, expand their financial compensation options and even to improve their grant writing success. However, even for those researchers coming from an industry background, venturing into business can seem daunting. Can one become a world-class researcher and commercialize a concept at the same time? Answers to that question as well as tips for succeeding as a research focused entrepreneur are at the heart of this presentation. From understanding how to identify the value proposition your work can have for industry, to understanding how to create a dynamic founder's team, to raising capital, this presentation will prove that the development of a startup can be very compatible with scientific research. Featuring case studies and information about how to use 'futurecasting' to design research that will lead to commercialization, this presentation will leave the audience with actionable next steps they can use to begin (or enhance) the commercialization aspects of their careers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.051

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.011
Scholarly communication0.0250.010
Open science0.0010.011
Research integrity0.0050.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.013

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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