This in turn gives startups and their private backers a powerful incentive to curry favour with the government first and commercialise actual breakthroughs a distant second.
Both groups think hydrogel batteries could be commercialised without great difficulty, and that the cost of making them would be reasonable when compared with present battery technologies.
In 2012 he commercialised a microfluidic device which could break cells open to release their mRNA and analyse the resulting transcript patterns 96 cells at a time.
Among other things, February sees the International Day of Human Fraternity, World Day of Social Justice and-everyone's favourite until it became a bit too commercialised-World Pulses Day.
That trend could change. A number of new spraying methods employing artificial intelligence (Al) are being commercialised, promising to cut the amount of pesticides a farmer needs to spray by a colossal 90%.
Dr Povey, who is also the boss of VLC, a firm set up to commercialise the technology, thinks such devices should be able to reach 1 gigabit per second, and do so over greater range.
Dr Povey, who is also the boss of VLC, a firm set up to commercialise the technology, thinks such devices should be able to reach 1 gigabit per second (Gbps), and do so over greater range.