How Climate Tech Gets Out of the Lab | Prof. Vikram Yadav

Most Bite-Size Climate Tech episodes start with one technology. This conversation became something much bigger.Professor Vikram Yadav happened to be in London, the weather cooperated, and we recorded one of those rare in-person BSCT episodes.We start with intelligent bioprocessing and a deceptively simple question: when does a scientific invention actually become innovation?From there, we explore why climate technologies need to be designed for scale from the beginning, why commercial reality matters alongside scientific performance, and why scientists should be bold enough to ask how their inventions might fail.We also talk about how to bring more talented people into climate work, Vikram’s journey from chemical engineering and oil & gas into biotechnology, the book that helped him see biology as a tool for planetary-scale problems, and why he remains optimistic about the next generation.Vikram is a professor at the University of British Columbia and Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Tydra Labs.One idea became the spine of the conversation:There is a difference between invention and innovation. A breakthrough only becomes innovation when it works in the real world, at scale.Recorded in London, May 2026.Season 5: Climate Tech Is Just Good Business.#ClimateTech #Bioprocessing #Innovation #ScienceCommunication