From Academia to entrepreneur: Lessons from the real world
From Academia to Entrepreneur: Lessons from the Real World by Eugene Khor, published by Elsevier S & T in 2013, is a comprehensive guide that offers practical advice on entrepreneurship. This 272-page book presents insights gained from the author’s experiences in starting his own business and collaborating with various ventures. It focuses on how to transition technology concepts from academia into successful enterprises, addressing key questions about evaluating business opportunities and overcoming risk aversion.
Readers will find a wealth of information on leveraging academic research as a foundation for business, along with strategies for navigating the challenges of the current academic landscape. The book emphasizes pragmatic approaches to entrepreneurship, detailing how to take a company to financial profitability and sustain it over time. With a focus on essential tools and practical ideas, this edition serves as a resource for those interested in the intersection of business and the life sciences, particularly in fields such as medical and biological sciences.
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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?
- 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
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