From Academia to Entrepreneur: Lessons from the Real World
By Eugene Khor
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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
Eugene Khor
Dr. Eugene Khor, Chiticore Enterprises Inc. Victoria, Canada.
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From Academia to Entrepreneur - Eugene Khor
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Entrepreneuring Academic Biomedical Science
This chapter commences with describing the surge of global interest in biomedical science with emphasis on Asia. The reason behind that interest is explained in terms of the industry’s present circumstance and economic potential with an eye on entrepreneurship. The prevalent attitude towards biomedical research and industry – sensationalizing its research potential and the promise of products as well as riches – is placed in perspective in line with the realities and challenges that will be confronted. The roles of academia and regulatory affairs are introduced. The chapter concludes with a survey of biomedical business opportunities and comments on what it takes to be a biomedical runway entrepreneur.
Keywords
biomedical buzz and hype; Asian biomedical business potential; biomedical emphasis transiting from chemistry to biology; dispelling biomedical business promise myths; role of academia; regulatory challenges; biomedical business opportunities; start where you are with what you