Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

1purenoiz t1_is1vf2r wrote

Reply to comment by LastExitToSalvation in A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced today by Wagamaga

Universities commercialize quite well by licensing their discoveries after they patent them.

3

LastExitToSalvation t1_is20lav wrote

Sometimes, sure, but I've seen so many great ideas that the PIs then try to take to market and it fails because they don't know anything about building a business. Licensing of course works too but again, for everything that gets farmed out to a manufacturer under a license, there's 100 basic research projects that never escape the lab. The list of patents available for commercialization just from NASA is enormous, and few of those are consumer available, for the same reasons.

1