Rufus Scientific
Scientific futures and innovation
What makes truely innovative science? How can genuine innovation be fostered? Is a new piece of invention or discovery genuinely a breakthrough in understanding, a paradigm-breaking piece of work after which the world will never be quite the same? None of these questions have obvious answers. Rufus Scientific can help identify innovation, what fields of science will be the future and which are extensions of what we know today, or thought we knew yesterday.
Rufus has proven ability to identify what is genuinely novel and competitive in a piece of life science, where its commercial advantage lies, and what to do about it, from initial strategy through business planning to start-up implementation. Here are a few presentations on this topic. (Some more detailed papers are under the 'Resources' heading above.)
Science has its innovators, its fashions and fashion-followers, and its true entrepreneurs, both technical and commercial. Identifying which is which is often hard, requiring both an overview of large areas of science coupled with deep knowledge of specific innovations. Rufus' experience can provide this, to identify not just what is cool today, but what could be cool tomorrow, and what scientific, commercial or medical benefit coulsd come from it. We believe that our past success in (for example) predicting the role of gene chips in genetic analysis, and the issues in the value of the commercial genomics proposition, supports our current understanding of what is genuinely hot, and what is just warm froth. We can apply this combination of objectivity, vision and understanding to future opportunities, good and bad.
Rufus also has a practical understanding, based both on experience and analysis, of how scientific innovation is turned into commercial value, both for innovators and for investors.
The validation of Rufus' ability to identify true innovation is found in the companies we have helped and created, summarised under the 'clients' and 'companies' buttons above.