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

Book Details

• Author: Michele Marcolongo
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• eBook ISBN: 9781118858967, 1118858964
• Print ISBN: 9781118859087, 1118859081
• Other ISBNs: 1118859073, 9781118859070