The National Science Foundation, for example, is embracing the formula to try to increase commercialization of the university research it finances. Last fall, the foundation announced the first of a series of grants for what it calls the N.S.F. Innovation Corps. The 21 three-member teams received a crash course at Stanford in lean start-up techniques, and have been given $50,000 each and six months to test whether their inventions are marketable.
launch of the SpaceX rocket - pretty amazing that a commercial rocket is taking over NASA's role in producing space hardware! how it is possible to finance such a huge venture. test their crew capsule and to continue proving it for use to supply the space station.
details the progress they have made and what the hardware looks like
