Neil Kane

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"I've never been fully qualified for any job that I've had, but I have always achieved…

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  • University of Notre Dame

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Volunteer Experience

  • Right to Start Graphic

    Ambassador

    Right to Start

    - Present 6 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Right to Start fights to expand entrepreneurial opportunity for all. We drive civic change through: grassroots organizing and mobilizing, policy advocacy and engagement, and lifting the voices of entrepreneurs through media and storytelling.

  • University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business Graphic

    Judge - Michigan Business Challenge (Entrepreneurship)

    University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

    - 1 month

    Education

  • Mentor

    WeWork Labs and WeWork Labs Leadership Academy

    - 2 years 4 months

    I share my experience, knowledge and time with WeWork's global network of startups.
    https://leadership-academy2021.splashthat.com/

  • University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business Graphic

    Mentor in the Financing Technology Commercialization Class

    University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

    - 1 year 3 months

    Education

    Financing Technology Commercialization (FIN ES 329 629) is a 3-credit University of Michigan (UM) Ross School of Business course, a Venture Capital Practicum in which UM student teams work closely with established early stage startup companies to help the founders and management of participating companies to refine a venture thesis and pitch for venture capital funding at the end of the term. Students work closely with a group of mentors experienced in entrepreneurship, management, and…

    Financing Technology Commercialization (FIN ES 329 629) is a 3-credit University of Michigan (UM) Ross School of Business course, a Venture Capital Practicum in which UM student teams work closely with established early stage startup companies to help the founders and management of participating companies to refine a venture thesis and pitch for venture capital funding at the end of the term. Students work closely with a group of mentors experienced in entrepreneurship, management, and investing and will have the chance to engage with entrepreneurs and investors as guest speakers.

    I am one of the mentors for the course.

Publications

  • The Innovator's Secret Formula

    As the pace of global innovation increases, more game-changing products are being produced faster than ever. Unfortunately, most of these new products will fail because not enough people want to buy them.

    What if there was a Secret Formula that could predict if a new product will be successful? What if there was a new way to look not just at new product development, but at the entire strategy of product innovation?

    Welcome to “The Innovator’s Secret Formula,” a book that…

    As the pace of global innovation increases, more game-changing products are being produced faster than ever. Unfortunately, most of these new products will fail because not enough people want to buy them.

    What if there was a Secret Formula that could predict if a new product will be successful? What if there was a new way to look not just at new product development, but at the entire strategy of product innovation?

    Welcome to “The Innovator’s Secret Formula,” a book that introduces the Quantitative Product-Market Fit (QPMF) Innovation Framework, a breakthrough method for designing highly profitable, market-leading products that have high Product-Market Fit (PMF). Product-Market Fit is so critical for success that Silicon Valley investors call it “the only thing that matters.”

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  • Thin Film Diamond Advances the Semiconductor Industry

    Advanced Materials & Processes;May2010, Vol. 168 Issue 5, p56

    The article focuses on the development and proliferation of thin film diamond in the semiconductor industry. It notes that working on diamond is difficult due to its low supply and expensive value. Its ability to harness diamond for semiconductor is considered tough. Its thermal transport properties are well recognized and are vital in solving nodes' temperature issues. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is notable as one of the killer applications for thin and smooth diamond.

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Patents

Courses

  • Blockchain: Foundations and Applications

    MGT 491

  • Innovation of Products and Services

    PIM 871

  • Lean Launchpad at Stanford University

    i245

Projects

  • Rev3 Innovation Center

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    Rev3 is an innovation center located in DuPage County, Illinois that is focused on helping people and companies manufacture products, software and technology to drive the third industrial revolution. From astonishing waves of innovation to new product concepts, to technology that changes business models – Rev3 is a place of emerging opportunities.

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Honors & Awards

  • Princeton Review Top 25 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program

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    In its second full year of eligibility since the launch of the Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MSU landed at #21 on the Princeton Review Top 25 list of all undergraduate entrepreneurship programs.

  • Invited witness to testify on the subject of technology transfer

    U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Research & Science Education

    I testified in Congress twice. The first time was in June 2010 and the second time was in July 2012.

  • Named a "Mover and Shaker"

    Frost and Sullivan

  • Outstanding Entrepreneurship

    National Science Foundation

  • Technology Pioneer

    World Economic Forum

    The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers programme recognizes companies, normally in a start-up phase, from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies, and hold promise of significantly impacting the way business and society operate.

    Technology Pioneers must demonstrate visionary leadership and show signs of being long-standing market leaders – their technology must be proven. Each year, hundreds of innovative companies from…

    The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers programme recognizes companies, normally in a start-up phase, from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies, and hold promise of significantly impacting the way business and society operate.

    Technology Pioneers must demonstrate visionary leadership and show signs of being long-standing market leaders – their technology must be proven. Each year, hundreds of innovative companies from around the world are reviewed, with approximately 30 selected as Technology Pioneers in the following three categories:

    * Information Technologies and New Media
    * Energy and Environment
    * Life Sciences and Health

    Technology Pioneers are selected on a yearly basis through a rigorous process. A selection committee - composed of technology experts from leading academic institutions, venture capital firms and technology incubators, as well as entrepreneurs and Forum Members and Partners - evaluate candidates against the programme’s criteria.

    Since 2000, more than 400 innovative companies from five continents have been selected as Technology Pioneers. Among them, the large majority are still thriving independently while others have been acquired by industry leaders.

  • Runner-up in Wall St. Journal's Technology Innovation Awards

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  • Golden Circle

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    Top 2% of all IBM sales representatives nationwide.

  • Inventor on U.S. Patent

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  • R&D 100 Award

    R&D Magazine

    Won three times.

Organizations

  • World Economic Forum Expert Network

    Member

    - Present

    Named by the World Economic Forum as an expert in the "Future of Education, Gender and Work, Education and Skills and Entrepreneurship."

  • Association of Interim Executives

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