Engineering a High-Tech Business: Entrepreneurial Experiences and Insights
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Engineering a High-Tech Business: Entrepreneurial Experiences and Insights

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Engineering a High-Tech Business: Entrepreneurial Experiences and Insights

About this book

This book provides actual entrepreneurial stories giving insight into the pitfalls and successes one might find in starting or even continuing with a small high-tech business. Insights into innovative, speculative, and (largely) successful new ventures, as experienced by those who went through the process, are complemented by comments and observations from others in the field including researchers, economists, investors, regional development agencies, technology transfer organizations, and universities. The book is recommended to entrepreneurs in all high technology disciplines and in particular for students and early career professionals. It can be also useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in entrepreneurship, which many institutions are currently introducing, and to those who are interested in how a high-tech business might develop.

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Yes, you can access Engineering a High-Tech Business: Entrepreneurial Experiences and Insights by López-Higuera, José Miguel,Culshaw, Brian, López-Higuera, José Miguel, Culshaw, Brian in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Entrepreneurship. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. List of Acronyms
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Reflections, Motives, and Money
  5. Chapter 1 Some Suggestions from an Economist to a New High-Tech Starter
  6. Chapter 2 The Academic Entrepreneur: An Oxymoron?
  7. Chapter 3 Money
  8. Chapter 4 Confessions of a Start-Up Junkie
  9. Chapter 5 Being an “Intrapreneur” and an Entrepreneur in the Optoelectronics Industry
  10. Part II: Some Case Studies
  11. Chapter 6 Mirada Solutions: The Case Study of a University Spin-Off
  12. Chapter 7 Building a Company the Old-Fashioned Way: Meadowlark Optics, Inc.
  13. Chapter 8 Building a Lasting Optical Design and Manufacturing Company
  14. Chapter 9 The Life and Times of a High-Tech Entrepreneur
  15. Chapter 10 A Case from Russia: IPG Photonics
  16. Chapter 11 Wacko WYKO
  17. Chapter 12 The Ocean Optics Story in a Nutshell
  18. Chapter 13 Experiences Starting a Nano-Sized Company
  19. Chapter 14 The Story of Fiberonics
  20. Chapter 15 Founding a Fiber-Optic Component and Sensor Business
  21. Chapter 16 How to Start a Small High-Tech Business in Troutdale, Oregon
  22. Chapter 17 SMARTEC: Bringing Fiber-Optic Sensors into Concrete Applications
  23. Chapter 18 “An Earth Odyssey” or Fibersensing
  24. Chapter 19 The First Years of Crystal Fibre A/S from a University Perspective
  25. Chapter 20 Multiwave Photonics: Building a Fiber Optics Company in Portugal
  26. Part III: Supporting the Entrepreneur
  27. Chapter 22 Intellectual Property in High-Tech Entrepreneurship
  28. Chapter 23 Support for a Young Company
  29. Part IV: The Universities
  30. Chapter 24 Strategic Support: The Case of the Technical University of Madrid
  31. Chapter 25 University Research and the Optics Industry
  32. Postscript: Some Concluding Thoughts
  33. Appendix: Due Diligence Check List
  34. Editor and Author Biographies