Mastering Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation: A Step-By-Step Guide for Researchers and Inventors (Paperback, 2, Second 2023)

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.