Come play the spin-out game. Lots of researchers and engineers do it these days: Starting a company based on their own research or inventions.
The prize is great. You can see your ideas become reality, saving lives or saving the planet – and you just might get rich along the way. But it’s harder than it looks. You have to work out who owns the invention, who would want to buy it, how to get it to them, how much money it’s going to cost to get going – and who, besides yourself, is going to be doing all this work. You could go broke. Or you could be wildly successful: Remember, Google was a spin-out from Stanford.
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