Favorable Environments

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Featuring interviews with industry leaders, pioneering researchers, and influential entrepreneurs, Favorable Environments offers listeners a unique perspective into the minds shaping the future of medical technology and healthcare.

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About the Show

Favorable Environments is a podcast inspired by Nobel Prize-winning physicist and South Dakota inventor Ernest O. Lawrence. The conversations featured explore the essential resources that make innovation in medical technology possible. From stories of raising funds for commercialization to insights into creating thriving organizational culture, the show uncovers the elements that lay the groundwork for the future of healthcare and life sciences. This podcast is sponsored by the University of South Dakota Discovery District.

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I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries, and flourishes only in a favorable environment.
Ernest O. Lawrence

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