Turning Research Into Billion-Dollar Startups

EU-Startups Podcast · Oct 1, 2026 · 27m · transcript

Prof. Benjamin Tee, Vice President at NUSX

Key points:

Entrepreneurship teaches lessons that academia can't - insights that only come from trying to turn ideas into companies

Deciding whether breakthrough research should stay in the lab or become a real company is a skill in itself, and one that can be learned

The journey from lab to market for first-time founders can be structured and supported

The biggest opportunities in physical AI sit at the intersection of AI, robotics and the physical world over the next few years

Working at the frontier of research on technologies like electronic skin…