Board members with intimate knowledge of ongoing experiments like asset-centric project financing and virtual discoveryand development models would bring a new perspective into the strategic dialogue.
Entrepreneurship, the discoveryand exploitation of new business opportunities, has become the buzzword of a knowledge-based global economy, and for a good reason.
It is probably fair to say that deep-sea research today is equally important to both pure and applied research, since the discovery of new species not only nurtures basic knowledge but is also likely to lead to the identification of new chemicals, which in turn tend to lead to new applications and new economic markets.