Knowledge logo  What's Wrong With this Picture: Kodak's 30-year
Slide into Bankruptcy Published : February 07, 2012 in
Knowledge@Australian School of Business  What As Eastman Kodak
begins to adapt to the challenges of bankruptcy, David A.
Glocker's company, Isoflux, is expanding -- thanks to technology
he developed in Kodak's research labs. He didn't steal anything.
In fact, before he founded Isoflux with Kodak's blessing in
1993, Glocker approached his managers at the company and
suggested they market the coating process he had developed.  "In
a nutshell, I went to them and said, 'I think this is valuable
technology and it's not being commercialized.... I'd like to do
that if Kodak is not interested,'" he recalls. "And they said,
'Fine, do it.'" So he did, in his spare time, for five years
while still working at Kodak, then full-time after leaving in
1998. Today, several patents and innovations later, Isoflux is a
growing company in Rochester, N.Y., that coats a range of three-
dimensional products, from dri