An excerpt from a recent article about LAB COPRS:
This “customer discovery” process, will help the teams learn about the challenges within their industry and how their technology might address those needs; it will also help researchers identify the gap between the current state of their technology and the point at which a commercial partner would invest and take it to market. For example, as Team Ring Burner, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, navigated their way through this process as part of the first round of training, one thing became very clear: many people were interested in their technology, but none were ready to have serious discussions about commercialization. The team realized that their potential partners needed to see a prototype in action—and then made it happen. You’ll hear more about Team Ring Burner’s low-emission natural gas burner in the future.
