In this episode, we delve into the importance of failure in entrepreneurship and how we can learn from it.  Associate Vice President for Commercialization, Michael “Mike” Sharer discusses the importance of entrepreneurial training for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. We start out with discussing Mike’s experience in industry prior to moving to Texas, and how he plans to help Innovation Partners continue to grow here at Texas A&M. Mike shares where his interest in innovation sparked from, the importance of researchers knowing about intellectual property, and the multi-faceted knowledge that gives you a head start in commercialization of inventions.

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