Dilip Shanghvi Quotes

Aspen's investment in TesoRx will assist in the work being undertaken to bring this product to market and in investing behind TesoRx's pipeline and technology that has the potential to be used for a wide range of different applications.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

Build something, make something, test something, sell something. Learn for yourself if your idea is a good one.

Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good marketers and yet it was AT&T engineers who were deciding what the products of the future were.

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

The studio is spending great amounts of money, and they want some insurance they will get money back. They go for the middle of the road, broad in appeal. It's restrictive. It's a constant struggle, but if you give in, you're just making cottage cheese, and that's the end of it.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The links have to be between universities, R&D institutes, and industry. If these linkages are in place, it will result in products that are useful for society. The government has to leverage the money it spends on R&D to help develop new products useful for industry.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.