Seeding Ecosystems with Eli Velasquez [Idea Machines #21]
Idea Machines13 Okt 2019

Seeding Ecosystems with Eli Velasquez [Idea Machines #21]

In this episode I talk to Eli Velasquez about creating startup ecosystems, commercializing research, especially when it's not necessarily venture-backable, and how the US government thinks about startups.

Eli is the head of Venture Development at VentureWell - a non profit organization that funds and trains faculty and student innovators to create businesses. VentureWell helps run I-corps, which talked to Errol Arkilic about in Episode 15. Currently, Eli runs all over the world helping create fertile ground of startup ecosystems and in the past he's worked with intellectual property both in industry at Boeing and Academia at Texas Tech. Basically he's working on meta-meta innovation: creating new ways to make places where it's easier for people to create new things.

Major Takeaways

  1. Too much government aid can turn companies into zombies because their customer becomes the grant-giver instead of money-paying customers.
  2. At the end of the day ecosystems happen because people's mindsets change
  3. On average bringing a technology to market on average takes more than five years.

Resources

Venturewell

Avsnitt(50)

Speculative Technologies with Ben Reinhardt [Macroscience cross-post]

Speculative Technologies with Ben Reinhardt [Macroscience cross-post]

Tim Hwang turns the tables and interviews me (Ben) about Speculative Technologies and research management.

27 Maj 202430min

Industrial Research with Peter van Hardenberg [Idea Machines #50]

Industrial Research with Peter van Hardenberg [Idea Machines #50]

Peter van Hardenberg talks about Industrialists vs. Academics, Ink&Switch's evolution over time, the Hollywood Model, internal lab infrastructure, and more! Peter is the lab director and CEO of Ink&Sw...

10 Feb 202446min

MACROSCIENCE with Tim Hwang [Idea Machines #49]

MACROSCIENCE with Tim Hwang [Idea Machines #49]

A conversation with Tim Hwang about historical simulations, the interaction of policy and science, analogies between research ecosystems and the economy, and so much more. Topics Historical Simulati...

27 Nov 202357min

Idea Machines with Nadia Asparouhova [Idea Machines #48]

Idea Machines with Nadia Asparouhova [Idea Machines #48]

Nadia Asparouhova talks about idea machines on idea machines! Idea machines, of course, being her framework around societal organisms that turn ideas into outcomes. We also talk about the relationshi...

3 Okt 202255min

Institutional Experiments with Seemay Chou [Idea Machines #47]

Institutional Experiments with Seemay Chou [Idea Machines #47]

Seemay Chou talks about the process of building a new research organization, ticks, hiring and managing entrepreneurial scientists, non-model organisms, institutional experiments and a lot more! Seema...

1 Sep 20221h 13min

DARPA and Advanced Manufacturing with William Bonvillian [Idea Machines #46]

DARPA and Advanced Manufacturing with William Bonvillian [Idea Machines #46]

William Bonvillian does a deep dive about his decades of research on how DARPA works and his more recent work on advanced manufacturing. William is a Lecturer at MIT and the Senior Director of Specia...

2 Aug 202248min

Philanthropically Funding the Foundation of Fields with Adam Falk [Idea Machines #45]

Philanthropically Funding the Foundation of Fields with Adam Falk [Idea Machines #45]

In this conversation, Adam Falk and I talk about running research programs with impact over long timescales, creating new fields, philanthropic science funding, and so much more. Adam is the presiden...

2 Juli 20221h 5min

Managing Mathematics with Semon Rezchikov [Idea Machines #44]

Managing Mathematics with Semon Rezchikov [Idea Machines #44]

In this conversation, Semon Rezchikov and I talk about what other disciplines can learn from mathematics, creating and cultivating collaborations, working at different levels of abstraction, and a lot...

30 Maj 202257min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

framgangspodden
varvet
rss-jossan-nina
rss-svart-marknad
rss-borsens-finest
avanzapodden
badfluence
uppgang-och-fall
svd-tech-brief
bathina-en-podcast
fill-or-kill
lastbilspodden
rss-dagen-med-di
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
tabberaset
24fragor
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi
rss-kort-lang-analyspodden-fran-di
rikatillsammans-om-privatekonomi-rikedom-i-livet
borsmorgon