Activate’s Ilan Gur: Bridging the science-to-market gap

Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 27:51) > Ilan Gur is the founder and CEO of Activate, an innovative non-profit organization that offers two-year entrepreneurial fellowships to scientists to try to bridge the gap in the US innovation ecosystem between the research lab and the startup world. Activate offers a wide range of resources, knowledge and networks to its fellows so they can begin to turn their cutting-edge ideas and technologies into real-world practical solutions, and businesses. The fellows are primarily focused on climate tech and the hard sciences, working to develop sophisticated, sustainable approaches to help a wide range of traditional industries – including agriculture, chemicals, energy, manufacturing and transportation – contribute to the fight against climate change. So far, Activate has supported almost 150 fellows, who have launched more than 100 startups and raised close to $900 million in additional public and private funding. See for privacy information

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Activate’s Ilan Gur: Bridging the science-to-market gap is an episode from McKinsey on Start-ups by Fuel, a McKinsey company.

This episode is 27:52 long.

This episode was published on Jul 14, 2022.

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