Use-Inspired Research: How Buz Barstow, PhD ’09, is Solving the Rare Earth Shortage

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Buz Barstow, PhD ’09, is a Professor-Entrepreneur, researches synthetic biology for bio-mining rare earths!! we chatted about:- the exciting advances in synthetic biology- how to commercialize research into startups- the future of innovation and research funding(0:00) what is your research about (5:26) getting started in synthetic biology (13:16) what makes a research problem interesting (21:51) startup brings tech into the real world (28:06) staring a second startup (30:27) research funding and innovation framework (36:54) how to good at use-inspired research (42:41) applied and engineering physics (48:07) being open for business (54:28) closing question

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