One aspect in the history of business, as opposed to technology,
is that the company who is first with the product becomes the leader due to the head start, and following companies broaden the market, but it is few and far between that they are able to overtake the one who was first.
It was the McDonald Bros. who came up with the process for "mass-producing" milkshakes and burgers and created fast food chains.
None have surpassed them.
It was Hertz who first marketed fly and drive - before them, everyone took a cab from the airport. Avis tried harder, but never overtook Hertz.
The first to mass produce quantum dots will have a big lead, for a couple of important reasons. First, QMC will be ubiquitous. They will be able to produce batches in quantity of the precise size and tuned to whatever frequency is desired by the client. Second, QMC owns the rights to the advances in Access2Flows processes for producing Quantum Dots, and therefore, others will need to come up with a different process. Third, QMC is already exploring other materials for use in QD and will no doubt come up with new products faster, and be able to commercialize them because they will use the same mass production process as the CdSe quantum dot production. Fourth, the process is portable. The Microreactor that mass produces QD is (my guess) no bigger than most tabletops. If it produces a few Kilos per processing, thats a couple of gallons of milk in size or double that. The amount QMC can produce will be a function of the number of machines running, and how many shifts they can run. Finally, the business model is to presell product, in other words, not produce product without a contract to purchase first. By this method, there is no overproduction, a problem in 2008-9 for many solar panel companies, and QMC becomes self funding because the money to build comes from the client who wants the product, and the product is custom made for the client's needs.
For all of the above innovations, QMC has a good chance of being first to market. If you read the last page of the NREL document I suggested, you would see that what they talk about, QMC is on the way to accomplishing.
