Ralph W.F. Hardy is President and co-founder of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (NABC), a consortium of over 35 not-for-profit agricultural research and educational institutions in Canada and the United States that provides an open forum for discussion on the safe, efficacious, and equitable development of agricultural biotechnology.
Previously, Hardy was President of BioTechnica International and President and CEO of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc. He was with DuPont for 21 years, where he led the research-driven diversification into pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, and bio-based products.
Ralph Hardy received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One of the big problems in tech transfer is what's called the valley of death. Technology here and to transfer it from the science technology side over to a successful commercial product has a high degree of failure and this has often been referred to as the valley of death. I think what we're tryi...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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