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

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

ISBN:	9781118859087
Publisher:	Wiley
Imprint:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published date:	12 Dec 2017
DEWEY:	658.421
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvii, 206
Weight:	316g
Height:	230mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	12mm

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