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

by Michele Marcolongo

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

224 pages, Paperback

Published September 25, 2017

Reviews

[David Usharauli · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is a general overview for scientists in academia on how to start a start-up. But if you have not used a pipette and I told you how to use it, can you use it? No, you cannot unless I will show you how to do it. The same is with this book. You can read it, but you cannot do it.