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Nature Careers Podcast |
Beyond academia: Planning the perfect exit strategy for a scientific career move
If academic research isn’t for you, when is the best time to switch sectors? Industry insiders offer their advice.
- Julie Gould
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Beyond academia: Breaking down the barriers that curtail industry collaborations and career moves
How porous is the metaphorical membrane between academia and industry? Julie Gould finds out.
- Julie Gould
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Career Feature |
How lab leaders can support students’ non-academic career plans
Nervous about advising junior lab colleagues who want to switch sectors? Don’t be, say scientists who have made the move.
- Nikki Forrester
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Career Column |
‘Hard’ skills from our PhDs remain relevant beyond academia
Experience in grant-writing, data analysis and presentation will serve you well, say Samantha Baggott and Jonathan McGuire.
- Jonathan McGuire
- & Samantha Baggott
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Where I Work |
The greener route to indigo blue
Tammy Hsu is finding a way to produce fabric dye with a lower environmental impact.
- James Mitchell Crow
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Career Feature |
How to turn your ideas into patents
Researchers and intellectual-property specialists offer their tips for deciding which discoveries are worth patenting, and how to do the homework needed for success.
- Andy Tay
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News Feature |
The broken $100-billion promise of climate finance — and how to fix it
At Glasgow’s COP26 summit, countries will argue for more money to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.
- Jocelyn Timperley
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Where I Work |
Stress testing avocados
Savannah Braden monitors how fruits ripen and rot to reduce food waste.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career News |
Gender gap in US patents leads to few inventions that help women
Inventor teams with women represent 16% of filed patents, yet are more likely than male teams to create women’s health products.
- Sara Reardon
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Career Q&A |
Back to the lab bench for Chinese entrepreneur
Tao Chen’s university spin-off was short-lived, but he’s still buzzing with business ideas as he prepares to return to academia.
- Sarah O’Meara
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Career Column |
Why academic administration was the right choice for me
I found job satisfaction and exciting opportunities in supporting other academics — but it’s a career path that many don’t consider. Try it.
- Juergen K. V. Reichardt
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Outlook |
The Spinoff Prize: Ones to watch
Here are ten university spin-offs that just missed making the final eight in the 2021 Spinoff Prize competition, but are worth keeping an eye on.
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Outlook |
The Spinoff Prize 2020 finalists: where are they now?
One year on from their nomination, Nature finds out what progress these young companies have made.
- Neil Savage
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Outlook |
The Spinoff Prize 2021
Start-up companies spawned at universities are transforming research findings into commercial offerings for biomedicine and technology.
- Herb Brody
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Business of science: The transferable skills that straddle academia and industry
Many researcher entrepreneurs forge successful portfolio careers across the two sectors.
- Adam Levy
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Business of science: How technology-transfer teams can help your spin-off succeed
Meet the people who advise researcher entrepreneurs on patents, licensing, business plans and commercial partnerships.
- Adam Levy
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Correspondence |
Trade resolution further threatens Brazil’s amphibians
- Joice Ruggeri
- & Lucas Rodriguez Forti
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Where I Work |
‘In software, the name of the game is innovation’
Nicolás Jodal codes software solutions for navigating pandemics and other obstacles.
- Kendall Powell
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News |
Boom in ships that fly ‘fake’ flags and trash the environment
The number of ships using a ‘flag of convenience’ loophole that allows them to be scrapped in a place with lax environmental regulations is skyrocketing.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Business of science: Tips and tricks for a perfect investor pitch
Seasoned science entrepreneurs tell Adam Levy how to take the daunting first steps to commercializing your research.
- Adam Levy
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Career News |
Job losses and falling salaries batter US academia
Surveys reveal a disquieting picture of institutions under financial stress.
- Chris Woolston
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Career Column |
Why industry internships can be your ‘golden ticket’ to a prosperous career
The three of us took a break from our PhD programmes for a stint that enriched our CVs and improved our chances of career success.
- Eric Juskewitz
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- & Nancy Saana Banono
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Career News |
‘Does anyone have any of these?’: Lab-supply shortages strike amid global pandemic
Scientific labs worldwide struggle to find enough sterile gloves and other basics as supply and manufacturing chains break down.
- Chris Woolston
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Where I Work |
Taking graphene out of the laboratory and into the real world
Business developer Cinzia Spinato helps nanoscientists to translate their inventions into marketable products.
- Chris Woolston
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Career News |
Pay gap widens between female and male scientists in North America
Permanent positions in US and Canadian industry and academia pay men higher wages than women.
- Chris Woolston
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Career Column |
‘Can you work with less-qualified people?’ and 19 other curveball questions to navigate at industry interviews
Be ready for queries that reflect stereotypes about academia and that probe why you’re switching sectors, says Tina Persson.
- Tina Persson
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Career Column |
My 11 part-time jobs made me a better PhD student
Waitressing, bartending and tutoring stole time from my academic studies, but I picked up transferable skills that still serve me well, says Cassie Sims.
- Cassie Sims
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Correspondence |
COVID-19: research on tech habits needs industry support
- Daniel L. King
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- & Paul H. Delfabbro
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Career Guide |
A recruiter’s guide to cell-biology jobs
Nature asked talent-acquisition manager Melisa Medrano how candidates for industry positions can tailor their CVs.
- Melisa Medrano
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Career Guide |
Top tips for cell biologists eyeing a move to industry careers
Five industry professionals offer advice on how compelling applications can help to secure jobs in biotechnology, biomedical and pharmaceutical companies.
- Nikki Forrester
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Outlook |
How blockchain and genetic engineering could make food safer for people with allergies
The two technologies might ultimately bring an end to ‘may contain’ food labels, which consumers find confusing.
- Guy Poppy
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News Explainer |
The unequal scramble for coronavirus vaccines — by the numbers
Wealthy countries have already pre-ordered more than two billion doses.
- Ewen Callaway
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News Feature |
The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs
Paratek Pharmaceuticals successfully brought a new antibiotic to the market. So why is the company’s long-term survival in question?
- Maryn McKenna
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Career Column |
The four pillars of a successful science spin-off company
Want to get ahead in business? Entrepreneurs need to be resilient, patient and strong team players, says Barbara Domayne-Hayman.
- Barbara Domayne-Hayman
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Outlook |
44 firms highlighted in The Spinoff Prize 2020
For the inaugural Spinoff Prize, Nature sought out the most exciting science-based companies to have emerged from academic labs in the past three years. Here are the selected firms: 12 finalists, and 32 ‘ones to watch’.
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Outlook |
The Spinoff Prize 2020
University-bred entrepreneurs are bringing some of the hottest scientific discoveries into practical applications in medicine and technology.
- Herb Brody
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News Feature |
The coronavirus outbreak could make it quicker and easier to trial drugs
Remote clinical trials and other changes could permanently alter pharmaceutical development: part 7 in a series on science after the pandemic.
- Heidi Ledford
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Career News |
Junior researchers hit by coronavirus-triggered hiring freezes
With student enrolment projected to fall, some US and UK institutions have halted recruitment.
- Chris Woolston
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Where I Work |
Inspiring confidence
Anne-Marie Imafidon launched an outreach business to encourage young women to pursue careers in technology and science.
- Chris Woolston
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Career Column |
How founding a company compares to graduate school
Although only a small number of PhD graduates become professors, most career guidance in PhD programmes centres on the academic career ladder. Adam Chekroud shares his experience of starting a company.
- Adam Chekroud
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Spotlight |
Taiwanese start-up detects an opportunity
Evolution of a company that uses spectroscopy techniques shines a light on business development in Taiwan.
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Spotlight |
From plastic toys to Industry 4.0: How Taiwan is using science to upgrade its manufacturing
The island is turning to smart machinery and artificial intelligence to improve the quality and flexibility of the products it makes.
- Sarah O’Meara
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Book Review |
Data judo, the interconnected self, and the dystopia in Silicon Valley: Books in brief
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks.
- Barbara Kiser
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Career Q&A |
Making a more diverse entrepreneurial environment
Cheryl Watkins-Moore moved from medicine to business before she launched an initiative to help women, minority ethnic groups and immigrants to enter the STEM start-up community.
- Nikki Forrester
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Editorial |
A precarious milestone for quantum computing
Quantum computing will suffer if supremacy is overhyped. Everyday quantum computers are still decades away.
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Seven Days |
Satellite launch, climate protest and Alexei Leonov dies
The week in science: 11–17 October 2019.
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Seven Days |
Giant iceberg, Nobel prizes and nuclear-fusion plans
The week in science: 4–10 October 2019.
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Seven Days |
Telescope windfall, genius grants and Arctic ice loss
The week in science: 27 September–3 October 2019.
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Editorial |
A stem-cell race that no one wins
Japan helped to bring stem-cell technology to the world. Its regulatory policies threaten its hard-won reputation.