Replies to post #39642 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[TheEternalChampion]

The silkworm is a better platform for commercialization. Randy always mentions his goats in interviews and articles to keep interest and funding going for his research, but he knows himself that the silkworms are a better platform. Both he and the Universities involved benefit from KBLB's success with commercializing the spider silk silkworm platform.




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[first mike]

who would get the deal, The silk worms or the goats? Are we in a race with the same leader Dr.Lewis? What if we only hit 50-70 % pure ssp this round? Could we still put a deal together in time for the cc.

There is no deal here that would bring money to KBLB.
There are two different funding models and two different sets of goals, the university model and the industrial public company model.
For a university, Fundraising is the GOAL.
For a public industrial company, funding is the Means, The goals are Product, and Production, and Income and Profit.
USTAR, and Randy Lewis' involvement with it are part of the university model.
Dr. Lewis is trying to get government funding for his future projects, bringing money in to his university to pay himself and grad students and give them a funded project to work on.
In this mode he will try not to mention KBLB or his ties to it at all if possible. If he gets funding for his advanced air bag proposal he will likely buy the silk from KBLB to construct his air bags, at a very low price because it is in KBLB's best interests to promote such uses, but that is all the money KBLB might see from this. The government of Utah is not going to give money to a public industrial company, and if they or some other government body would, the odds are that KBLB would not want it because such grants usually have strings attached. The exception might be an SBIR from the fed, but I am not sure of that.
There is no competition here. Lewis' worms are (some of) KBLB's worms. Lewis helped to develop KBLB's worms, and the University of Wyoming where he then worked sold the rights to a bunch of spider silk genes to KBLB.


Mike L.