Entrepreneurship: Getting Your Research Off the Bench and Out Into the Real World [Young Professionals]

Taking an idea off the bench and into the market, often called technology transfer, encompasses a variety of activities by which inventions flow from basic research to commercial entities and then to public use. This article describes two useful tools to help improve the translation of ideas to market. The first is the Business Model Canvas, or Lean Canvas for Business (LCB), an existing tool that helps entrepreneurs identify a minimum viable...