# #510 Dr. John Scott: How to Turn 6% R&D Into Revenue?

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Podcast: [21st Century Entrepreneurship](https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325)
Published: 2026-03-30T05:00:00+00:00
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Dr. John Scott is a former astrophysicist turned serial entrepreneur, and we spoke about why most innovation fails—and how to systematically flip those odds. After earning dual PhDs and spending over a decade in academia, he walked away from a tenured position after realizing that entrepreneurs “were having a lot more fun and satisfaction… than me writing equations on a blackboard.” That turning point led him to build and test a new model for creating companies—one designed not around ideas, ...

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