Or, a market-leading company that partners with a small business to advance their products toward commercialization.

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These will each be responsible for developing a quality programme at their institution for education, research, innovation and the commercialization of new products involving converging technologies and the basic sciences associated with these technologies.

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The companies said the collaboration reflects the shared belief that the development and commercialization of biosimilar products will not follow a pure brand or generic model and will require significant expertise, infrastructure and investment to ensure safe, reliably supplied therapies.

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The second piece of innovation is the commercialization of that into products and services.

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Federally funded university research has contributed critical knowledge that in turn led to the commercialization of the Internet and the development of products such as computerized imaging, global positioning systems, smartphones and tablet computers.

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Denon is recognized internationally for innovative and groundbreaking products and has a long history of technical innovations, including the development and groundbreaking commercialization of PCM digital audio.

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Rex Innovation Facilitator: a formalized way for Rex co-workers and thought leaders in the community to submit innovative ideas and receive technology commercialization and company-building services for promising concepts that could lead to new products or services.

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They, too, concentrated on invention and for the most part left the commercialization of their inventions to enterprises with the requisite manufacturing and other resources needed to build and sell products successfully.

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