{"id":1483,"date":"2015-11-22T18:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2015-12-20T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T03:50:46","slug":"cyclotron-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2015\/11\/22\/cyclotron-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclotron Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a feature article for the Fall issue of the Berkeley Science Review (<a href=\"http:\/\/berkeleysciencereview.com\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/berkeleysciencereview.com', 'BSR']);\" target=\"_blank\">BSR<\/a>) about the resources available for PhDs when they want to turn their research into companies.<\/p>Here it is : <a href=\"http:\/\/berkeleysciencereview.com\/article\/cyclotron-valley\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/berkeleysciencereview.com\/article\/cyclotron-valley\/', 'Cyclotron Valley']);\" target=\"_blank\">Cyclotron Valley<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1484\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cyclotron_valley_draft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1484\" class=\"wp-image-1484\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cyclotron_valley_draft.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclotron Valley (intial design)\" width=\"628\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cyclotron_valley_draft.jpg 876w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cyclotron_valley_draft-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the proposed cover designed (credit: Indrasen Bhattacharya)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Both research and entrepreneurship also require another crucial skill\u2014flexibility. The academic must choose from many potential research paths and be prepared to alter his or her plans when experiments predictably don\u2019t work. In the parlance of Silicon Valley, this is known as the pivot\u2014an attempt to assess the validity of your current direction and then use that knowledge to devise another idea that works better.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>This is part of my involvement with the Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneurial Program (<a href=\"http:\/\/bpep.berkeley.edu\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/bpep.berkeley.edu\/', 'BPEP']);\" target=\"_blank\">BPEP<\/a>), the first association promoting entrepreneurship among skilled researchers, run by volunteers.<\/p><em>edit 12\/20\/15<\/em> : I&#8217;ve just read <a href=\"http:\/\/marianamazzucato.com\/projects\/the-entrepreneurial-state\/the-entrepreneurial-state-usa\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/marianamazzucato.com\/projects\/the-entrepreneurial-state\/the-entrepreneurial-state-usa\/', 'The Entrepreneurial State']);\" target=\"_blank\">The Entrepreneurial State<\/a> by Mariana Mazzucato. Quite interesting discussion on the (true) origin of innovation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HDUraI1HJRY\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HDUraI1HJRY', 'Here&#8217;s a video']);\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a video<\/a> that roughly summarizes the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a feature article for the Fall issue of the Berkeley Science Review (BSR) about the resources available for PhDs when they want to turn their research into companies.Here it is : Cyclotron Valley Both research and entrepreneurship also require another crucial skill\u2014flexibility. The academic must choose from many potential research paths and be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-projects","category-resources","category-science-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}