Mastering Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation : A Step-by-Step Guide for Researchers and Inventors

Part 1: The Long Road Ahead -- 1. An Invention Is Not An Innovation -- 2. Can Every Idea Be Transformed into an Innovation? -- 3. What Are The Driving Forces for Innovation? -- 4. Can Everybody Be an Innovator? -- 5. The Long, Hard Road Ahead -- 6. The Critical Milestones -- Part 2: Cloistered Creativity -- 7. The Birth of the Idea -- 8. How Do You Determine If a New Technology Has Value?- 9. Critical Milestone 1: Proof of Concept -- 10. Research and Development -- 11. Strategy for Protection and Freedom for Use -- 12. Critical Milestone 2: Validation of Technical Feasibility for Applications -- Part 3: Maturing in the Real World -- 13. Out Into the Real World: Scaling Up -- 14. Business Planning for New Entrepreneurs -- 15. Critical Milestone 3: The Industrial Prototype and Validation of Economic Viability -- 16. A Researcher’s Strategy for Technology Transfer -- 17. Industrialisation -- 18. On to the Market! -- 19. What Can Go Wrong? -- Part 4: Case Studies in Technology Transfer -- 20. Case Study 1. Microwave Heating Process for Bulk Ceramics -- 21. Case Study 2. High-Hardness, High-Toughness, Nanostructured Coatings for Gears and Axles -- 22. Case Study 3. Advanced Energy Cells for Portable Power Tools and Other Devices -- 23. Case Study 4. Advanced Nanostructured Coatings for High-Precision Turning of Very Hard Materials -- 24. Case Study 5. Nanostructured Medical Preparation -- 25. Case Study 6. Specialist Cross Platform Interface Software -- 26. Case Study 7. Low Cost Inorganic Pigments -- 27. Case Study 8. Low Cost Contact Brushes For High Power Electric Motors -- Part 5: Glory Years, Natural Decline and Renewal -- 28. Glory Years -- 29. Natural Decline And Renewal -- 30. Closing Remarks.