Advancing game changing academic research concepts to commercialization: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based sustainability framework for making informed decisions in Technology Valley of Death (TVD)

Upadhyayula, Venkata K.K.; Gadhamshetty, Venkataramana; Shanmugam, Kavitha; Souihi, Nabil; Tysklind, Mats

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.12.029

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“…Besides primary experimental results (lab scale or pilot scale) and simulation data, scientific articles, patents, expert opinion can be utilized as data sources for both predictive scenarios and scenario ranges (Arvidsson, Kushnir, Sanden, & Molander, ; Arvidsson et al., ). Use of artificial neural networks is also proposed to develop life cycle inventory data, for example, information pertinent to molecular structure can be used to develop information for new synthetic chemical (Upadhyayula et al., ). Whether it is primary data or secondary or proxy data, for all data used in LCA care should be taken to ensure details of uncertainties reported and communicated to all stakeholders involved in decision making.…”

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“…Gavankar and colleagues used the concept of technology readiness level (TRL) and manufacturing readiness level (MRL) to describe the maturity of technology in their LCA study (Gavankar et al., ). TRL is a systematic qualitative scaling method to evaluate the maturity of technology from TRL1: scientific breakthrough, to TRL9: technology commercialization and to compare maturity between different technologies as well (Gavankar et al., ; Hicks, Culley, Larsson, & Larsson, ; Upadhyayula, Gadhamshetty, Shanmugam, Souihi, & Tysklind, ). TRLs can be used as a tool to assist technology developers to track emerging technologies and their transition into production.…”

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Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: A review

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Mahmud

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J of Industrial Ecology

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In recent literature, prospective application of life cycle assessment (LCA) at low technology readiness levels (TRL) has gained immense interest for its potential to enable development of emerging technologies with improved environmental performances. However, limited data, uncertain functionality, scale up issues and uncertainties make it very challenging for the standard LCA guidelines to evaluate emerging technologies and requires methodological advances in the current LCA framework. In this paper, we review published literature to identify major methodological challenges and key research efforts to resolve these issues with a focus on recent developments in five major areas: cross-study comparability, data availability and quality, scale-up issues, uncertainty and uncertainty communication, and assessment time. We also provide a number of recommendations for future research to support the evaluation of emerging technologies at low technology readiness levels: (a) the development of a consistent framework and reporting methods for LCA of emerging technologies; (b) the integration of other tools with LCA, such as multicriteria decision analysis, risk analysis, technoeconomic analysis; and (c) the development of a data repository for emerging materials, processes, and technologies. K E Y W O R D S emerging technology, ex ante LCA, industrial ecology, life cycle assessment (LCA), technoeconomic analysis (TEA), technology readiness level (TRL)

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Section: Toward a Framework For Lca Of Emerging Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: A review

Moni

Mahmud

High

et al. 2019

J of Industrial Ecology

199

118

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“…Leadership plays a pivotal role in the early stages of any startup and has a significant and positive effect on startup further performance (Zaech, & Baldegger, 2017). However, within the new startups, those engineers or scientists typically play this role busy in new product development or new feature development, and they have a lack motivation to commercialize their ideas (Upadhyayula, et al, 2018;Dobrenkov, et al, 2017). Therefore, there might be a shift in a leadership role from scientists to 'innovation champions' or, more precisely, to the team members having a more entrepreneurial mindset once the innovation moves towards product development or commercialization stages.…”

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Crossing the Valley of Death: lessons for young entrepreneurs

Al-Shaikh¹,

Siddiqui²

2021

JESI

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Valley of Death (VoD) is a metaphor often used to describe the situation in which many new startups fail to survive. This paper aims to share the experiences of developing guidelines for young entrepreneurs to successfully cross the Valley of death. The ideal target audience for this paper includes young entrepreneurs eager to launch their startups and preferably attending business incubation or acceleration programs. This research hypothesized to make a conceptual model crossing the Valley of death using the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The entrepreneurship ecosystem consists of six higher-order domains, including enabling government policies and leadership, financial capital, culture, support services, human capital, and markets. From earlier studies, entrepreneurial actions to cross the Valley of death were extracted. Entrepreneurship experts, including business incubation center managers, mentors, entrepreneurship faculty from business schools, validated these entrepreneurial actions. Analyses show four domains replicated in the study, enabling government policies and leadership, financial capital, support services, and markets. Furthermore, culture was partially replicated while the experts did not validate human capital. Finally, it presents entrepreneurial actions used to cross the Valley of death by new startups. These entrepreneurial actions are mapped on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Findings include an emphasis on the understanding of ten issues including, entrepreneurial ecosystem, government rules, procedures, and incentives (like tax benefits, grants) for similar startups, intellectual property rights for similar projects, the role of leadership in startup performance, financial capital for the startup, risks and decision-making choices, regional entrepreneurial culture, support services for similar startups, markets, customers & competitors, the commercial value of the research project/product. Findings also show how to perform these actions and the appropriate timings of these entrepreneurial actions.

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“…En una aproximación posterior al VM, Jucevicious et al (2016) reconocen que las IES deben coevolucionar con los otros componentes de la triple hélice -empresas y Estado-, como condición para cumplir con objetivos de la tercera misión de comercialización y participación en el desarrollo socioeconómico. Upadhyayula et al, (2018) sugieren que la mayoría de las innovaciones tecnológicas originadas en las IES se quedan en el VM y no pasan a la fase de comercialización. Por este motivo, se hace relevante mejorar el entendimiento de cuáles factores inciden en la manifestación del VM.…”

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“…Autores han revisado el contexto institucional y cultural en el interior de las IES (Abereijo, 2015;Gulbrandsen, 2009;Meyer et al, 2011;Upadhyayula et al, 2018) como contexto que incide, en parte, en el comportamiento empresarial e innovador de los investigadores académicos. Abereijo (2015) identifica una brecha en el talento humano de las IES y plantea brechas entre las habilidades, las aptitudes y las percepciones típicas de los investigadores académicos, así como las que se requieren en el rol de emprendedor.…”

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Factores involucrados en el valle de la muerte de la I+D+i: aproximación de casos polares

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Como «valle de la muerte» (VM) se denomina a una brecha que dificulta la finalización exitosa de proyectos de investigación, desarrollo e innovación (I+D+i), impidiendo su entrada en fases de desarrollo de nuevos productos, puesta en operación y comercialización. Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar los factores que inciden en el VM en un grupo de proyectos de I+D+i, de diversas instituciones de educación superior ubicadas en el Valle de Aburrá, Colombia. Dada la complejidad que implica el estudio del VM en el ámbito de los proyectos de I+D+i, se realizó un estudio de casos polares, pues este proporciona información acerca del VM en proyectos específicos, para luego plantear recomendaciones al fenómeno en general. El análisis se realizó desde un enfoque cualitativo, de carácter inductivo y fenomenológico, en el que se estudiaron seis factores involucrados en la formación del VM: equipo humano, competencias y roles, conocimiento de las dimensiones, trabajo en red, financiación y percepción del riesgo, instituciones y modelos mentales. Se evidenció que en los proyectos que aún no han superado el VM se encuentran dificultades institucionales —reglas de juego — y de modelos mentales —representaciones de lo que se debe hacer—, así como debilidad en la construcción de redes de trabajo. En los proyectos que sí superaron el VM predominan como resueltos los factores relacionados con formación de capacidades del talento humano, alianzas y conocimiento de las dimensiones.

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Advancing game changing academic research concepts to commercialization: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based sustainability framework for making informed decisions in Technology Valley of Death (TVD)

Cited by 29 publications

References 62 publications

Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: A review

Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: A review

Crossing the Valley of Death: lessons for young entrepreneurs

Factores involucrados en el valle de la muerte de la I+D+i: aproximación de casos polares

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