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1.1 What Is This Book About? |
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1.2 What Is a Sustainable Chemical Technology? |
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1.3 Commercializing Sustainable Chemical Technologies Is Challenging |
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1.4 Who Should Read This Book? |
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1.5 Structure of This Book |
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Part I Laying the Foundation |
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2 Marketing and Landscape Analysis |
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2.1 Introduction: Think Marketing |
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2.2 Creating a Marketing Plan: The Application Framework |
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2.3 Customer Needs and Mapping |
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2.4 Customer Analysis: How to Gather Customer Needs Data |
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2.4.1 Finding the Right Contacts |
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2.5 Customer Needs Mapping |
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2.7 Market Segment Evaluation |
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2.8 Competitive Landscape and Competencies |
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2.9 Conclusion and Next Steps |
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3 Determining the True Value of a Sustainable Chemical Technology |
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3.2 Sustainable Value and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals |
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3.2.1 Embracing SDGs at the Business Level: United Nations Global Compact Participation |
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3.3 Life-Cycle Thinking and Life-Cycle Assessment |
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3.4 Attributes and Impacts: Check Your Assumptions |
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3.5 Business Risk and Sustainable Design - Or How to Turn an Externality into a Selling Point |
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3.6 Guiding Principles for Sustainable Chemical Technology Innovations: Chemistry, Carbon, and Circularity |
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3.6.1 Sustainable Materials Management |
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3.6.2 Alternatives Assessment |
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3.7 Chemical and Material Considerations that Impact Sustainable Value |
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3.8 Introducing Your Sustainable Chemical Technology into the Marketplace |
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3.8.1 Communicating Cost Versus Life-Cycle Benefits |
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3.8.2 Benefiting from a "Green Premium" |
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4 Intellectual Property Management and Strategy |
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4.1 Intellectual Property |
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4.2 What Is an Intellectual Property Right? |
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4.3 The Value of Intellectual Property Rights to a Sustainable Chemical Technology Company |
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4.4.1 What Sort of Technology Can Be Patented? |
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4.4.8 Criteria for Patentability |
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4.4.9 Preparing and Filing a Patent Application |
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4.4.10 12-Month Anniversary |
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4.4.13 Patent Examination |
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4.5 Building an IP Portfolio |
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4.5.1 Invention Management |
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4.5.2 Deciding Whether to File a Patent Application |
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4.5.3 Inventions Not Patentable or Worth Patenting |
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4.5.4 Patent Attorneys/Agents |
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4.5.6 When to File a Patent Application |
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4.5.7 Where to File a Patent Application? |
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4.5.8 Controlling the Speed of the Process |
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4.5.9 Managing the Patent Application Process |
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4.6 Avoiding Other People's IPRs |
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4.6.2 Clearing Obstructions |
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Part II Political and Environmental Considerations |
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5 Navigating and Leveraging Government Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Support |
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5.1 What Is an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem? |
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5.2 Types of Resources Available |
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5.2.1 Financial Resources |
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5.2.2 Nonmonetary Resources |
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5.3 Ecosystems in the United States and Canada |
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5.3.1 Government Agencies |
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5.3.2 Non-profit Organizations |
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5.3.3 Incubators and Accelerators |
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5.3.4 Academic Research Institutions |
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5.3.6 Hybrids of Resources and Players |
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5.4 Ecosystems in the European Union |
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5.4.1 SusChem: A European Technology Platform of Sustainable Chemistry |
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5.4.2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Resources |
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5.4.3 Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) |
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5.4.4 InnovFin - Financing for Innovators |
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5.4.5 European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator |
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5.4.6 Other EU Programs for the Entrepreneur |
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5.5 Setting Priorities When Pursuing Resources |
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5.6 Conclusion: Engage with Your Ecosystem |
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6 Factoring in Public Policy and Perception |
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6.2.1 International Policies |
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6.2.2 Regional Policy - The European Union |
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6.2.3 National-Level Policies |
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6.2.4 Policies Beneath the National Level (US) |
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6.3 New Trends and Approaches |
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6.3.1 The Precautionary Shift |
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6.3.2 Attention to Vulnerable Populations |
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6.3.3 Industry, NGOs, the Public, and Other "Governance" Actors |
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6.4 Conclusion: Policy as Strategic Advantage for the Sustainable Chemistry Innovator |
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6.4.1 Perceptions and Opportunities |
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7 Pre-market Approval of Chemical Substances: How New Chemical Products Are Regulated |
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7.3.1 Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) |
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7.3.2 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) |
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7.3.3 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) |
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7.4.2 Exemptions to REACH Registration |
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1.1 Developing a Global Strategy |
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Part III Springing into Action |
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8 Navigating Supply Chains |
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8.2 Supply Chain Complexity |
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8.3 Recognizing Points of View |
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8.4 Supply Chain Hurdles and Strategies to Overcome Them |
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8.4.1 Incumbency: Incumbents and Legacy Suppliers Own the Supply Chain, Market Access, and Global Supply |
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8.4.2 Roadblock: Adoption Must Occur at all Points in the Supply Chain in Order to Be Successful |
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8.4.3 Confusion: "Green Washing," Perceptions, and Misinformation Confuses the Industry and Consumers on What Is Truly More Sustainable, Which Impacts Demand |
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8.4.4 Risk Aversion: Worries of Failure Due to Poor Performance, Brand Tarnishing, Hidden Costs, and Stagnant Product Sales |
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8.4.5 Decision-Makers: Sustainable Corporate Objectives vs. Operations May Not Align |
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8.4.6 Supply and Demand: Concern in Committing to a Single Sourced New Technology |
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8.4.7 Transparency: How to Satisfy Customer and Regulatory Demands While Protecting Intellectual Property and Trade Secrets |
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8.4.8 Price/Performance: It's More Than Price per Pound; Total Cost Savings Need to Be Communicated |
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9.1.1 Partnerships as a Change Driver |
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9.1.2 Partnerships for Sustainable Chemical Technologies |
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9.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Strategic Partnering |
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9.3 The Start-Up Perspective: Partnership Advantages and Disadvantages |
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9.3.1 Partnership Advantages for the Start-Up |
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9.3.2 Partnership Disadvantages for the Start-Up |
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9.4 The Industrial Partner Perspective: Partnership Advantages and Disadvantages |
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9.4.1 Partnership Advantages for the Industrial Partner |
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9.4.2 Partnership Disadvantages for the Industrial Partner |
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9.5 Mitigation of the Disadvantages and Risks |
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9.5.2 For the Industrial Partner |
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9.6 Evaluating a Potential Partnership |
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9.6.1 Start-Up Perspective |
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9.6.2 Industrial Perspective |
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9.7 Establishing the Partnership |
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9.8 Executing the Partnership |
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9.9 Closing the Partnership |
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10 Bridging the Gap 1: From Eureka Moment to Validation |
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10.2 Fundamental Research Leading to an Invention |
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10.4 The Tech Team: Moving Beyond an Academic Group |
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10.5 Developing the Road Map |
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10.6 Defining Your Technology Development Requirements |
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10.7 The Innovation Cycle: Design, Simulate, Fabricate, Test, Iterate |
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10.8 Accelerating the Process |
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10.8.1 An Example in Workflow Management |
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10.9 Growing and Evolving the Team |
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11 Bridging the Gap 2: From Validation to Pilot Scale-Up |
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11.1 Part 1: Setting the Groundwork |
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11.1.2 Letting Go and Obtaining External Expertise |
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11.1.3 Safety Considerations |
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11.1.4 Commercial Considerations |
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11.1.5 Techno-Economic Assessment |
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11.2 Part 2: Building the Pilot Unit |
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11.2.2 Piloting and Scale-Up Basics |
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11.2.3 Process and Equipment Considerations |
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11.2.4 Pilot Plant Operation and Location |
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12 Raising Investment/Financing |
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12.2 Main Investment Sources |
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12.2.2 Strategic Partnerships |
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12.2.5 Bootstrapping (Using Your Own Money) |
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12.3 Unique Considerations for Investing in Sustainable Chemistry |
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12.3.1 Investment Drivers |
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12.3.2 Investment Impediments |
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12.3.3 Comparison to More Heavily Funded Areas |
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12.4 Financing Considerations |
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12.4.1 Trade-Offs Between Investment Types |
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12.5 Best Practices to Present Your Company to an Investor |
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12.6 Financing Case Study: Cnano Technology |
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13 Operationalizing a Start-Up Company |
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13.2.2 Board of Directors |
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13.2.3 Building an Advisory Board |
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13.2.4 Building a Board of Directors |
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13.2.5 Managing the Board |
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13.2.6 Compensating Boards |
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13.3.1 Human Resources Management |
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13.3.2 Health and Safety Systems |
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13.3.4 Financial Projections |
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14 Making an Impact: Sustainable Success Stories |
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14.1.2 The Core of the Technologies |
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257 | (1) |
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14.1.3 Determining the Value Proposition |
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14.1.4 The Commercialization Pathway |
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258 | (1) |
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14.1.6 Development and Validation |
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14.2.1 Initial Technology and Business Model |
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14.2.2 Change in Direction |
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14.2.3 Exploring and Validating a New Opportunity |
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14.2.4 Huge Challenges and Huge Advances |
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266 | (1) |
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14.2.5 Expanding Our Technology Portfolio |
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267 | (1) |
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14.2.6 Additional Strategies and Lessons Learned |
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14.3.1 Blind Luck or Preparation? |
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14.3.2 Hazel Technologies: How It Started and Where We Are Today |
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14.3.3 Understanding What Our Business Really Is |
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14.3.4 Targeting Value Through the Supply Chain |
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