About Vice-Principal ResearchThe Wings Accelerator program is helping Morgan Lehtinen jump the gap between academic research and commercialization.
A PhD student in chemistry at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트, in the course of her work towards her degree, Lehtinen has developed a green, low-cost, low-energy system for extracting oils from water. The system would work on almost any oil, but she has chosen to focus on those commonly called metalworking fluids, oils used in a range of industries that are frequently tainted with heavy metals and other toxins and are very difficult to dispose of.
When it comes to working with these, Lehtinen says her process is 카지노 게임 컬렉션something that could really make a difference.카지노 게임 컬렉션 She had already decided on an entrepreneurial career outside the world of pure research as a way to tackle these kinds of environmental problems. But she knew she needed to learn more about business to do that, as this was not information you picked up in a graduate chemistry program.
Lehtinen was working with Jason Hendry, Partnerships Development Officer at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovations (QPI), on opportunities to commercialize her research, and through her connection to QPI learned about the many resources available to entrepreneurs including those offered to women entrepreneurs via the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s-led WE-CAN Project. QPI카지노 게임 컬렉션s Rick Boswell also suggested she apply to the Wings Accelerator, designed for companies that are advancing science- or technology-based ideas but as yet have no or small recurring revenues.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t have any sort of specific goal going into Wings,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I was just hoping to get some very general guidance.카지노 게임 컬렉션 But she says that the mix of group seminars and one-on-one mentoring (both conducted via Zoom thanks to COVID-19) 카지노 게임 컬렉션ended up giving me a lot more support than I originally sought.카지노 게임 컬렉션
카지노 게임 컬렉션I worked mostly with Elza [Seregelyi, one of the program카지노 게임 컬렉션s co-directors] for all of our one-on-ones,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Lehtinen. 카지노 게임 컬렉션She knew that my background was heavy on the technical but not on the business side, and she was really able to break that down.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Andrew Jackson, Wing카지노 게임 컬렉션s other co-director, helped her focus on her market and differentiate herself from her competitors. Don카지노 게임 컬렉션t, he told her, try to sell your process as replacement for any current systems that potential customers use. That would be a cost they would not be willing to make. Instead, he said, market it as an enhancement that will decrease the amount of wastewater produced that needs to be trucked away for special treatment. 카지노 게임 컬렉션That,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션is what I ended up with as a business model.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Lehtinen has roughly a year left to go on her PhD, but remains focused on her filters, 카지노 게임 컬렉션improving the fundamental technology and focusing on adapting it for real world scenarios,카지노 게임 컬렉션 with the plan for really getting going on the venture commercially once she카지노 게임 컬렉션s finished school. Currently called Smart Filters, her company name is a work in progress and may change in future.
Thanks to Wings she has the skills to do that. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I went in with a technology that I wanted to become a business venture,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션And I came out with a technology and a plan.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The Wings/Growth Acceleration program was made possible with support from the Government of Canada to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 through the which is led by Invest Ottawa in eastern Ontario and by Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in the Kingston region.