Brown's Partridge said the commercialization of this technology was not a surprise.

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While commercialization of the Kodak laser technology will take some time, now that it is in the hands of IMAX, we would expect them to leverage existing hardware relationships to exploit the traditional movie theater opportunity.

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Many of the Shin Megami Tensei gameplay elements are at hand here, including managing your party versus your creatures, and the story struggles with concepts of technology, commercialization and the occult.

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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture and commercialization of its single molecule, real-time, or SMRT technology-an integrated platform for genetic analysis.

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The public sector has had a long and storied history of using federal funding to spur research, technology development and commercialization.

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Spectrum has also signed an exclusive collaboration with Allergan (AGN), a technology-driven global health care company, for the development and commercialization of Apaziquone, an agent aimed at treating non-muscle bladder cancer.

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"The faculty don't necessarily understand how venture capital works, and the venture capitalists say, 'We're not ATM machines, '" says Holly, 43, an MIT-trained engineer who helped build two technology companies in the 1990s before returning to academia as a champion of commercialization.

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