Opinion

October 13, 2020

Unsexy innovation: Commercialising deeptech

The tech often does work — but is completely unsellable. We can do better.


Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash

This is the third article in our series on Unsexy Innovation. Part 1 was on navigating procurement and part 2 was on buying innovation services.  

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