Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Turn your science into a business : when commercializing scientific discoveries, inventors and firms face several potentially fatal traps

Notas: Sumario: The average adult human body holds about 40 liters of water to support its metabolic processes. Burn victims can lose nearly 37 liters of water a day because of the damage to their skin. Traditional treatment of burn patients involves painful surgery and often a grueling series of follow-up operations. After witnessing a procedure on a severely burned farmer, Lynn Allen-Hoffmann vowed to find a way to help these patients. She embarked on a decade of research and conducted more than 1,000 experiments, and in 1999 she patented a skin substitute derived from normal-tissue cell linesRegistros relacionados: En: Harvard business review. - Boston : Impact Media Comercial S.A., 1988-. - 03/11/2014 Tomo 92 Número 11 - noviembre 2014 , p. 106-114Materia / lugar / evento: Investigación y desarrollo Salud Enfermos Quemaduras Biotecnología Rehabilitación Patentes Otros autores: Kim, Phillip H.
Alexy, Oliver
Outras classificações: 931

‌ Ver detalhe do número