University Startups and Spin-Offs
University Startups and Spin-Offs

Author: Manuel Stagars

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1484206231

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University Startups and Spin-Offs teaches university students, researchers, and educators the most effective strategies and tactics for launching their own startups from academic platforms with the backing of school programs, public grants, incubators, seed accelerators, and private partnerships in all parts of the world. Serial entrepreneur Manuel Stagars advises students, faculty, and researchers how to test their ideas for marketability, how to develop commercial products out of research projects, and how to engage companies and investors with attractive value propositions. The author has seventeen years of experience as startup entrepreneur, founder of seven companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan, consultant to universities on commercializing their research programs, angel investor, and startup mentor. Stagars’ advice is field-tested, battle-hardened, and supported with a wealth of instructive first-hand examples from his international experience. The author advises academic entrepreneurs to take matters into their own hands instead of relying on the initiative and support of universities and governments. He shows students and researchers how to fit lean startup methods to their existing university ecosystems, leveraging their strengths without getting bogged down in bureaucratic morass. Avoiding theory and jargon, the book focuses on real-world situations, practical steps, checklists, and case studies. University students and researchers will learn the skills they need to become startup entrepreneurs on an academic platform. The final part of University Startups and Spin-Offs addresses university administrators, educators, technology licensing officers, incubator managers, and government grant officers. It shows them with practical examples from the private and academic sectors how to integrate startups into the fabric of the university, develop a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem for students and researchers, leverage latent network effects, build bridges between scientific research and industries seeking innovative solutions, enhance the public image of the university, and motivate the university’s best and brightest to engage in startup enterprises that will deliver benefits to the university and the public as well as to themselves.

Academic Entrepreneurship
Academic Entrepreneurship

Author: Scott Andrew Shane

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1843769824

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"Authoritative and highly readable, this volume will appeal to scholars researching the spinoff phenomenon, university technology transfer officers, inventors, policymakers, external entrepreneurs and investors."--BOOK JACKET.

University Spin-off Companies
University Spin-off Companies

Author: Alistair M. Brett

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13:

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University-based research is increasingly leading to business opportunities beyond academia. Notable examples include Hewlett Packard from Stanford University and Digital Equipment Corp. from MIT. This volume explores this emerging phenomenon in order to offer an efficient solution to the problem of launching academic ventures. The 14 contributions to University Spin-off Companies provide an overview of the opportunities in and obstacles to creating spin-off ventures and consider case studies from several universities. The contributors believe that greater emphasis on spin-off ventures will allow the nation's universities to play a vital role in increasing industrial competitiveness, creating wealth for the community, providing greater returns on our investment in higher education and enhancing the traditional knowledge-generating role of the university sector.

Research to Revenue
Research to Revenue

Author: Don Rose

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2016-01-06

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 146962527X

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University start-ups are unique in the world of business and entrepreneurship, translating research conducted at and owned by universities into market-ready products--a complex process that requires a combination of scientific, technical, legal, business, and financial skills to be successful. Start-ups have the potential to generate revenue for universities, enhance faculty recruitment and retention, create jobs, and create investment opportunities for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Research to Revenue presents the first-ever comprehensive guide to understanding, starting, and managing university startups. By systematically describing the process of translating academic research into commercial enterprises, Don Rose and Cam Patterson give a thorough, process-oriented, and practical set of guidelines that cover not only best practices but also common--and avoidable--mistakes. They detail the key factors and components that contribute to a successful start-up, explain what makes university start-ups unique, delineate the steps of building and managing them, and describe how to foster and maintain start-ups at a university. Written for faculty and staff working on campus, tech-transfer officers, university administrators, and venture capitalists unfamiliar with university structures, Research to Revenue ensures that any reader unfamiliar with technology commercialization and entrepreneurship will understand the fundamentals of the process, including intellectual property rights, fund-raising, and business models. This work is an invaluable resource for the successful formation and well-managed operation of university start-ups.

Startups and Innovation Ecosystems in Emerging Markets
Startups and Innovation Ecosystems in Emerging Markets

Author: Moacir de Miranda Oliveira, Jr.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783030108649

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This book examines the behavior of high-tech startups and important aspects of innovation ecosystems in Brazil. It discusses how the local business environment boosts startups and high-tech entrepreneurship, leading to the most successful implementation of technology parks and incubation movements in Latin America. In the first part, the chapters explore the experience of Brazilian high-tech startups with regard to innovation, funding, background of the entrepreneur and their efforts entering international markets. The second part is dedicated to innovation ecosystems and explains the role of business incubators, acceleration programs, and university entrepreneurship in the country.

The Entrepreneur's Manual
The Entrepreneur's Manual

Author: Richard M. White

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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You are holding in your hands the ultimate guide to transforming your dream business into a reality. Drawing upon years of trial and error, Richard White imparts his insights on how to establish a successful business and keep it running strong. Substituting complex theories for critical advice rooted in real-life experience, White makes designing and managing a successful business model more accessible than ever. The Entrepreneur's Manual covers everything entrepreneurs need to know, from identifying your niche market, to forecasting and controlling sales, to building a solid foundation of effective employees. White's rare advice has made this manual mandatory reading not only for entrepreneurs, but for anyone who wants to better understand the business world. In addition to motivating prospective business owners, this book, above all others in its field, delivers results. This superior guide on the secrets behind successful entrepreneurship possesses the qualities of a true classic: its advice remains as relevant as ever. Find out why The Entrepreneur's Manual has been the mandatory business guide for nearly half a century.

21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States
21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0309136628

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Recognizing that a capacity to innovate and commercialize new high-technology products is increasingly a key for the economic growth in the environment of tighter environmental and resource constraints, governments around the world have taken active steps to strengthen their national innovation systems. These steps underscore the belief of these governments that the rising costs and risks associated with new potentially high-payoff technologies, their spillover or externality-generating effects and the growing global competition, require national R&D programs to support the innovations by new and existing high-technology firms within their borders. The National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) has embarked on a study of selected foreign innovation programs in comparison with major U.S. programs. The "21st Century Innovation Systems for the United States and Japan: Lessons from a Decade of Change" symposium reviewed government programs and initiatives to support the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises, government-university- industry collaboration and consortia, and the impact of the intellectual property regime on innovation. This book brings together the papers presented at the conference and provides a historical context of the issues discussed at the symposium.

Research and Innovation Policies in the New Global Economy
Research and Innovation Policies in the New Global Economy

Author: Philippe Larédo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2001-11-28

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9781782543008

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'The book is quite valuable, with its broad international coverage of state activities in the area of research and innovation support. It should also foster serious debates on the balance between public and private efforts in research and innovation.' - Mats Benner, Journal of Economic Literature '. . . this book provides the reader with a valuable summary of national public policy approaches to research and innovation at the end of the twentieth century and is a useful addition to the shelves of industrial policy experts.' - David Gray, Entrepreneurship and Innovation The book analyses the evolution of research and innovation policies in the world's leading countries. The last decade has witnessed a radical transformation of the landscape shaped after World War II, as described in the seminal collection edited by Richard Nelson in the early 1990s. Even though national systems have inherited different institutional arrangements and trajectories, analyses show three major converging trends in their public policies. There has been a retraction from support to large firms and programmes and a shift toward small to medium enterprises and the innovation infrastructure; the focus on public research and training capabilities is growing; and there has been a redesign of public intervention with the growing role of regions and states on one hand and multinational authorities on the other, particularly in the European Union.

Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation
Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation

Author: David C. Mowery

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 080479636X

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Since the early 1980s, universities in the United States have greatly expanded their patenting and licensing activities. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee, among other authorities, have argued that this surge contributed to the economic boom of the 1990s. And, many observers have attributed this trend to the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Using quantitative analysis and detailed case studies, this book tests that conventional wisdom and assesses the effects of the Act, examining the diverse channels through which commercialization has occurred over the 20th century and since the passage of the Act.

Academic Entrepreneurship in Europe
Academic Entrepreneurship in Europe

Author: Mike Wright

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1847205577

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The structure of the book and the organisation of material within chapters are well thought out with the authors skilfully weaving empirical material from diverse sources into an easily readable holistic account of the university spin-off phenomenon. . . Many of the lessons learned and conclusions drawn from this work are applicable to academic entrepreneurs in whichever faculty or subject area they work. David Woollard, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research This timely book fills a gap in the knowledge market. . . The authors should be applauded for taking the time to write and share their knowledge with us. This book will be welcomed by practising researchers. . . It will also be welcomed by busy lecturers, policymakers, students and chief executive officers. Robert Smith, Entrepreneurship and Innovation This book advances our understanding of university spin-off creation and development in environments outside the high-tech clusters of the US. While there has been substantial university spin-off activity internationally in recent years, a number of major aspects are little understood. The authors argue that the nature of universities is changing as reduced public funding reflects a public debate on their role in society. An important aspect of this international phenomenon is an increased emphasis on the commercialization of university research and on academic entrepreneurship. These new ventures therefore involve the spinning-off of technology and knowledge generated by universities. The authors adopt a multi-level approach in their examination of university spin-offs. European case studies are specifically selected to reflect the diversity of the institutional environment. In particular, units of analysis involving universities, technology transfer offices, spin-off firms, finance providers and individual entrepreneurs and teams are extensively analysed in quantitative and qualitative studies. To conclude, policy implications for the future successful development of spin-offs are identified. This fascinating book will appeal to a wide-ranging audience including academics, policy makers, researchers and practitioners with an interest in academic entrepreneurship and university spin-offs, and, more generally, in business and management and entrepreneurship.