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Record Nr.

UNINA9910271041703321

Autore

Marcolongo Michele

Titolo

Academic entrepreneurship : how to bring your scientific discovery to a successful commercial product / / Michele Marcolongo, PhD., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2017

ISBN

1-118-85896-4

1-118-85892-1

1-118-85907-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 pages)

Disciplina

658.421

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship - United States

University-based new business enterprises - United States

Academic-industrial collaboration - United States

Academic spin-outs - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

So, you have a game-changing discovery...Congratulations! -- Now what? Protect your intellectual property -- Are they buying what you're selling? The search phase -- Friend or foe : the tech transfer office and licensing -- Proof-of-concept centers : bridging the innovation gap -- Start-up management : you've to kiss a lot of frogs... -- Graduate students and post-docs, start-up your career -- Incubators and accelerators, it's time to move out -- Do you believe in angels? Financing your company -- Your roadmap : avoid the potholes.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--