About Me:
I am a business developer interested in commercializing science and industry innovations and ideas that have a significant impact and can creates value, sales and profit.
As an advocate for innovation commercialization, I have led a set of events, including Innovation Commercialization & Funding and three SBIR PR conferences.
We must promote our know-how and talent. I was a mainland promoter at PRIDCO and brought over 55 factories. The large businesses like HP, Microsoft and Amgen are still here but another 35 left over time. New factories are not coming since the successful business model for PR has permanently changed to service export not manufacturing.
For true growth, we must own the factories and new businesses. We must support entrepreneurship to commercialize our own products and services. We can create our own business that will provide real sustainable growth. We have learned that industrial development is not growth unless it is local and sustainable.
Project Info:
My focus is to help universities and technology entrepreneurs to work together, overcoming cultural and institutional barriers, in order to bring Puerto Rico to the next level of industrial and technology development. A Big Platform should be organized uniting all S&T stakeholders which supports creating value and societal impact from the know-how and ideas created and commercialized from Puerto Rico, in collaboration with multinationals, universities and alternative funding sources. How do we communicate ideas and business opportunities and how do we help ardent tech entrepreneurs to develop new ideas and markets? That question will determine our fate and will lead us from this Great Criollo Recession. We have talked and planned for many years to work together. What happened to the 25 Year Plan developed four years ago by the Island stakeholders? Nothing or not enough. If we do not organize and mobilize resources, then we deserve to not participate in the world stage of innovation economics that creates wealth and opportunities.