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Turn your science into a business : when commercializing scientific discoveries, inventors and firms face several potentially fatal traps / Reddi Kotha, Phillip H. Kim, Oliver Alexy

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 lines

En: Harvard business review. - Boston : Impact Media Comercial S.A., 1988-. - 03/11/2014 Tomo 92 Número 11 - noviembre 2014 , p. 106-114

1. Investigación y desarrollo . 2. Salud . 3. Enfermos . 4. Quemaduras . 5. Biotecnología . 6. Rehabilitación . 7. Patentes . I. Kim, Phillip H. . II. Alexy, Oliver . III. Título.