Book Details

Nurturing Science-based Ventures

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-84628-874-6

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The challenge is to nurture entrepreneurial skills and ambitions in science and engineering academic students in the hope that they will consider the starting of a new business based on their research as a compelling alternative to more traditional employment opportunities. The book by Seifert, Leleux and Tucci addresses this challenge. … designed as a teaching support for courses on science-based entrepreneurship and it primarily targets engineering and science students. The book focuses on science based ventures that originate in technological break throughs, but entrepreneurs from all backgrounds can learn from it. Nurturing Science-Based Ventures charts the development of a new venture through five chapters.


Subject: Business and Economics, Business, Company Start-up, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Executive Development, Innovation, Science and Engineering-based Business, Spurring Innovation, information technology, life cycle, organization, Engineering Economics