The Podcast

Join us as Ricardo Silva walks through the mechanism that underpins his brilliantly straightforward definition of innovation: build academic industry partnerships where an industry problem becomes the research focus, and the research output becomes the input for a startup or commercialization loop that funds the next cycle.

If you’re trying to turn research into a real business, this episode hits the messy parts people skip. In the US academic model, “publish or perish” collides head-on with industry’s need to own IP and put work behind NDAs. Ricardo lays out what has to change if you want repeatable research-to-startup outcomes: how you measure researcher value, how you staff the work (students as trained capacity), and how you structure the broker layer between university capability and market demand.

You’ll also get a grounded take on building startups “inside systems,” including what happens when you cross borders and your credibility resets to zero, even with decades of wins.

Here’s a teaser…

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What You Missed on Sunday

Here’s what we covered in Sunday’s newsletter edition…

When you’re running a startup, every opportunity feels like your entire world is on the line. And when a corporate partner comes knocking, the excitement of “OMG they like me!” can quickly cloud a founder’s judgement and lull them into a false sense of upcoming success.

In this week’s edition, we lay out the brass tacks of what to look out for when considering a corporate partnership. We’ll highlight the traps, the language to watch out for, and the outcomes that can lead to a young company’s inevitable demise, all thanks to a partnership opportunity that looked like a guaranteed success.

Here’s what you’ll find: