
Risky business: A study of physics entrepreneurship
Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 @ 23:14:37 UTC Topic: Investors
From Physicstoday.org: Physicists who work at startup companies create and improve marketable technologies. But their goals are not always aligned with those of the funders who pay the bills.
...Our findings describe the value of physics startups to high-tech
innovation, startup funding structures, the role of academic technology
transfer programs, and regional differences among startup clusters. In
addition, we have identified some factors that may be indicators of
success or failure; some mistakes to watch out for are summarized in the
box on page 44...
Full article: http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v65/i12/p39_s1?bypassSSO=1
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