This is not my area of expertise, and I would bow to any of my other colleagues who could better answer, but what I continually hear is that although we are relatively supportive of the early stages of taking a new product and developing it, when that corporation or start-up is trying to move into full-time, long-term production, that is the valley of death where we continually lose those companies. This is the biggest gap that I've heard of. We support the start-up companies, but how do we help them to get through to that next step?
On February 7th, 2011. See this statement in context.