From Academia to Entrepreneur
Lessons from the Real World

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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:

  • How do I pragmatically appraise business opportunities?
  • What traits should I look for in an enterprise?
  • What can and should I do with my concept while in academia, before entering such an endeavor?
  • How do I overcome risk aversion?
  • And most importantly, why should I be the one to build this business?
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

the many in academic, business and government, with an interest in start-ups from academia in mind. Clinicians, engineers and scientists in academia pursuing biomedical and associated research pondering turning their knowledge, results and experience into starting an enterprise

Dr. Eugene Khor, Chiticore Enterprises Inc. Victoria, Canada.
  • Provides insights into using academic research as a potential business, meeting the challenges and opportunities in today's academic research environment
  • Offers practical ideas on entrepreneurship
  • Describes how to take a company to financial profit and maintain it
  • Emphasizes the pragmatic details to work through, equipping you with the correct set of tools to build your business