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From Academia to Entrepreneur
Lessons from the Real World
Conducting and subsequently taking suitable academic research results to start-up enterprises
Eugene Khor (Author)
9780124105164, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 29 November 2013
272 pages, 10 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.8 cm, 0.38 kg
"Khor offers this advice manual for entrepreneurship focusing on biomedical science. The book begins by presenting the potential of biomedical entrepreneurship as well as its challenges, and discussing the transition from academia to business in both personal and practical terms…The book also addresses viability assessment and concludes with the eventuality of leaving the business or taking a different role even if it is successful." --ProtoView.com, February 2014
From Academia to Entrepreneur: Lessons from the Real World provides practical advice on entrepreneurship, interspersed with insights the author gained from starting up his own business and in associations with other ventures. These same insights can be applied to bringing a technology concept from academia to an enterprise. A few of the questions From Academia to Entrepreneur: Lessons from the Real World answers:
Prologue 1. Entrepreneuring Biomedical Science2. The Academic-Business Conundrum. 3. Taking Academic Biomedical Research Beyond the Lab Bench4. To Become a Runway Entrepreneur From Academia 5. What is Business? 6. Business Plan7. Raising Funds8. Quality Systems9. About Consultants10. Action Plan11. When the Rubber Hits the Road12. Start-up Battle Gear Essentials13. ArrivalReferences Appendices Acknowledgments
Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA], Entrepreneurship [KJH]
