#2: Fernando Gómez-Baquero - Director of Runway & Spinouts at Cornell Tech

<p>Fernando Gómez-Baquero leads Runway, the Startup Postdoc Program at the Jacobs Technion – Cornell Institute at Cornell tech. &nbsp;The program is part business school, part research institution, and part startup incubator. It's led to the creation of numerous deep tech startups led by post-docs from all over the world. Fernando holds a Ph.D. in Nanoscale Science and Engineering from the University at Albany SUNY, and has been a co—founder and early technology lead at companies such as <a href="http://www.bess-tech.com/">Besstech</a>, NanoColombia, Innovate Prefabricate, Dendron Nanomed, Midstate, Revela Medical, and FlashCharge Batteries.</p> <p>Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-YiZHCMBc&amp;ab_channel=CornellTech">this video</a> about the program and <a href="https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/phd/startup-postdocs/runway-application/">click here to apply</a> by February 15th for the next cohort.&nbsp;</p> <p>In this episode we talk his experience forming Besstech, the value of customer development, patenting tips, how to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Langer">Bob Langer</a>, what advice they give post-docs at Runway, and much more.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>More about Fernando</strong></p> <p>Fernando's research has focused on advanced nanomaterials for energy storage applications, on the economic impact of pervasive nanotechnologies, and on tech entrepreneurship. He has more than 15 years of experience in the nanotechnology industry, starting with production and characterization of carbon nanotubes and developing of polymer/nanotube composite materials. He is a leader in the fabrication of nanoengineered electrodes for lithium-ion batteries using semiconductor processes and using nanotechnology to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Gómez-Baquero has several publications in nanomaterials research and on the economic impact of nanotechnologies and number of patent applications in diverse applications of nanomaterials. Check out his <a href="https://scholar.