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How to Bring Your Scientific Discovery to a Successful Commercial Product
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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


Contents:

Dedication Foreword Preface Acknowledgements About the Author Chapter 1: So, You Have a Game-Changing Discovery Congratulations! Chapter 2: Now What? Protect Your Intellectual Property. Chapter 3: Are They Buying What You re Selling? The Search Phase Chapter 4: Friend or Foe: The Tech Transfer Office and Licensing Chapter 5: Proof-Of-Concept Centers: Bridging the Innovation Gap Chapter 6: Start-Up Management: You ve to Kiss a Lot of Frogs Chapter 7: Graduate Students and Post-docs, Start-Up Your Career Chapter 8: Incubators and Accelerators, It's Time to Move Out Chapter 9: Do You Believe in Angels? Financing Your Company Chapter 10: Your Roadmap: Avoid the Potholes Index


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ISBN-13: 9781118859087
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Publication date: November, 2017
Pages: 230
Dimensions: 150.00 x 250.00 x 15.00
Weight: 666g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders

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