Too Good to Fail: Creating Marketplace Value from the World’s Brightest Minds

Clifford Gross is an executive with leadership experience in academia and commercial enterprises and is passionate about the development, transfer and commercialization of intellectual property to create lasting value. He is an author/co-author of three prior books, The Right Fit, The New Idea Factory and Technology Transfer for Entrepreneurs, and is a named inventor on 19 issued patents from his research.

Clifford founded two public companies where he served as CEO and Chairman. He also served as President and CEO of Innovacorp, an early-stage venture capital fund in Nova Scotia, Canada. Previously, he was director of the graduate program in biomechanics and ergonomics at New York University, Chairman of the Nelson Rockefeller Department of Biomechanics at the New York Institute of Technology and Research Professor at the University of South Florida.

He currently serves as the CEO of Tekcapital Ltd. based in Oxford, U.K. and has completed more than 100 technology transfers from university and federal laboratories to a wide range of companies. He also serves on the board of directors of the Technology Transfer Society and the State University of New York at Empire State College. He received his Ph.D. from New York University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford.