Nurturing Science-based Ventures: An International Case Perspective
The number of students who wish to learn about entrepreneurship and actively engage in entrepreneurial activities – either by creating their own companies or by spurring innovation within a large organization – has grown greatly in recent years. Motivating engineers and scientists to become entrepreneurial has particular appeal in light Buy Accutane of the abundance of technological knowledge that lurks hidden in today’s research institutes and technology-based enterprises, waiting for commercialization. However the expanding number of teaching programs fail to address the particular challenges and opportunities or starting up viable businesses based on science and engineering. Nurturing Science-based Ventures: An International Case Perspective presents case studies of more than 30 businesses in scientific fields such as biotechnology, biomedicine, high-tech engineering and information technology. The case studies are arranged in modules tracking the typical life cycle of c (more…)





