How to stop overlooked ideas from slipping away.(Xerox Corp. started Xerox Technology Ventures to commercialize research)(Abstract)
Economist (US), The, February, 1999
Xerox Corp. set up Xerox Technologies Ventures in 1988, whose task it was to take ideas that were rejected by Xerox and try to turn them into opportunities. In 1998, Xerox Technologies Ventures has set up about 13 start-up companies. Other companies have developed similar approaches to commercializing research that is not initially approved for production.
Adopting orphans
WHAT to do with clever ideas that fall by the corporate wayside Xerox has been particularly profligate with the fruits of its researchers' imagination. The company's Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) is famous for having pioneered ideas that made fortunes for many of its Silicon Valley neighbours, but little for itself. It was not just that corporate planners at Xerox's head office in...
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