Academic Entrepreneurship: How to Bring Your Scientific Discovery to a Successful Commercial Product

Academic Entrepreneurship: How to Bring Your Scientific Discovery to a Successful Commercial Product
ISBN-10
1118859065
ISBN-13
9781118859063
Series
Academic Entrepreneurship
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2017-09-15
Publisher
Wiley
Author
Michele Marcolongo

Description

The pathway to bringing laboratory discoveries to market is poorly understood and generally new to many academics. This book serves as an easy-to-read roadmap for translating technology to a product launch guiding university faculty and graduate students on launching a start-up company. The pathway to bringing laboratory discoveries to market is poorly understood and generally new to many academics. This book serves as an easy-to-read roadmap for translating technology to a product launch - guiding university faculty and graduate students on launching a start-up company. Addresses a growing trend of academic faculty commercializing their discoveries, especially those supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health Offers faculty a pathway and easy-to-follow steps towards determining whether their discovery / idea / technology is viable from a business perspective, as well as how to execute the necessary steps to create and launch a start-up company Has a light-hearted and accessible style of a step-by-step guide to help graduate students, post-docs, and faculty learn how to go about spinning out their research from the lab Includes interviews by faculty in the disciplines of materials science, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, information technology, energy, and mechanical devices - offering tips and discussing potential pitfalls to be avoided.

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