About SpinOut Radar
Why SpinOut Radar Exists
In 1925, Julius Lilienfeld patented the field-effect transistor — the foundation of modern electronics.
But no one noticed.
No prototype. No funding. No commercialization.
The idea vanished.
Two decades later, Bell Labs reinvented it. Backed by AT&T, it won the 1956 Nobel Prize and sparked the digital revolution — a trillion-dollar opportunity that could've been realized decades earlier.
That story stuck with me.
As a business student, I worked in a university research lab and saw firsthand how groundbreaking ideas often go unnoticed — buried in obscure databases, overlooked by investors, or lost in academic limbo.
Later in my career, I had the chance to tour research labs around the world — from Asia to Europe to North America — and the pattern was often the same:
Brilliant research. Little visibility. No bridge to the outside world.
SpinOut Radar was born to fix that.
We make university innovation visible, searchable, and actionable — transforming buried IP into opportunity for founders, investors, and builders of the future.
Because the next trillion-dollar idea is already out there.
It just needs to be seen.
Dustin M. Haggett
Founder, SpinOut Radar