From Academia to Entrepreneur

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Eugene Khor, Chiticore Enterprises Inc. Victoria, Canada. "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 environmentOffers practical ideas on entrepreneurshipDescribes how to take a company to financial profit and maintain itEmphasizes the pragmatic details to work through, equipping you with the correct set of tools to build your business Zusammenfassung Provides practical advice on entrepreneurship, interspersed with insights the author gained from starting up his own business and in associations with other ventures. This book features insights into using academic research as a potential business, meeting the challenges and opportunities in academic research environment.

Autorentext
Dr. Eugene Khor, Chiticore Enterprises Inc. Victoria, Canada.

Klappentext

Pharmaceutically active substances are a class of new, so-called emerging contaminants that have raised great concern in recent years. Human and veterinary drugs are continuously being released into the environment mainly as a result of the manufacturing processes, the disposal of unused or expired products, and via excreta. The amount of pharmaceuticals and their bioactive metabolites in the environment is low; however their continuous environmental input may lead to high long-term concentrations and promote adverse effects on aquatic and terrestrial organisms.

The analytical methodology for the determination of trace pharmaceuticals in complex environmental matrices is still evolving, and the number of methods described in the literature has grown considerably. The main objectives of this book are to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of analytical methods for trace determination of pharmaceuticals in environmental samples and to review the fate and occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the water cycle for their elimination in wastewater and drinking water treatment, with particular attention to the newest developments in treatment technologies such as membrane bioreactors and advanced oxidation processes.

Zusammenfassung
Provides practical advice on entrepreneurship, interspersed with insights the author gained from starting up his own business and in associations with other ventures. This book features insights into using academic research as a potential business, meeting the challenges and opportunities in academic research environment.

Inhalt
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