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Spin-outs: Creating Businesses from University Intellectual Property by Professor Graham Richards
Author(s): Graham Richards (Author)
- Publisher: Harriman House Publishing (2009-01-19)
- ISBN-10: B019TM411S
Book Description
Spin-out companies from university science departments are very fashionable, important and much encouraged by governments and university authorities. They offer the hope of keeping western economies viable at a time when manufacturing is being outsourced to developing countries, as well as sustaining university finances. The recent UK Lambert Report emphasized their importance. The book paints the general picture and imparts the lessons learned by the University of Oxford, which has an outstanding record in the area, while being given a real-life focus by illustrating the businesses in which the author has been involved. The book provides information for universities about what can be achieved and how. It also provides guidance to the entrepreneur with thoughts of creating a high-tech the pitfalls, the problems and what is needed, as well as an indication of the potential benefits to all concerned.
