The Big Experiment
Ever wondered how technology start-ups, well, start-up? For most founder entrepreneurs, it is the biggest experiment they'll ever run. Like most experiments, the result isn't known beforehand and it often doesn't work first time. On a bigger scale, how do big tech companies turn innovative science into profit?
Mark Davison interviews founder scientists, executives, investors, communicators, and others in the technology start-up and corporate science ecosystems.
Learn how great ideas turned into thriving businesses (or not) from those who made it happen (or didn't). Get business tips, lessons learned, and life lessons straight from the people who know.
Inspiring, disastrous, funny: hear what life in a science-driven company is really like.
Straight-talking, no nonsense, but conversational style. All technical content is explained for the non-specialist - you don't need a PhD or fluency in jargon and technobabble.
The Big Experiment
Latest Episodes
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Is the answer to sustainable chemical manufacturing floating in our oceans?Ocean cyanobacteria, like plants, use sunlight as power to help them make complex chemicals. Traditional industrial chemistry requires a lot of power and ca...
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Jenny Barnett: New tests and drugs for schizophrenia
Can neuroscience finally catch up with the complexity of mental illness?Society faces a huge and growing burden from mental illness and impairment. Schizophrenia, for example, is a bigger socioeconomic burden than all cancers put togethe...
Paul Beastall: Fuelling our future planet with a zero-carbon biofuel
Forget drilling—what if diesel could be grown instead?In this episode we head into the world of engineered biology with Paul Beastall, CEO of HutanBio. He explains how his team is cultivating an oil-rich microalgae, previ...
Brain-on-a chip? Neurons as future biocomputers with Dr. Ewelina Kurtys
What if the future of computing isn’t silicon... but neurons?In this episode, we explore a radical new frontier where biology and technology come together — programming living neurons as processors.I am joined by Dr. Ewelina Kurty...
