#Hardware Scaling

Translating a software algorithm from an academic server to a commercial cloud environment is largely a matter of computing credits. Translating a physical scientific instrument from a lab bench to a commercial product, however, requires bridging a massive financial chasm. For Principal Investigators (PIs) and deep tech postdocs, the friction …

The hardware technology industry is obsessed with economies of scale. The standard playbook dictates that to make a physical product profitable, you must quickly move from expensive prototypes to injection molding and mass manufacturing in the tens of thousands of units. For deep tech and scientific instrumentation, this playbook is …

For researchers applying for EU funding, the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) scale is an unavoidable metric. Originally developed by NASA, the TRL scale has been fully adopted by the European Commission to evaluate the maturity of a project. In software or materials science, climbing this scale can sometimes feel like …