Introduction to Biotech Entrepreneurship: From Idea to Business: A European Perspective

Florentina Matei (Curatore)

Daniela Zirra (Curatore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

Primarily intended for biotechnology graduates, this handbook provides an overview of the requirements, opportunities and drawbacks of Biotech Entrepreneurship, while also presenting valuable training materials tailored to the industrial and market reality in the European Biotech Business. Potential investors and business consultants will find essential information on the benefits and potential risks involved in supporting biotech businesses. Further, the book addresses a broad range of Biotechnology fields, e.g. food biotech, industrial biotech, bioinformatics, animal and human health. Readers will learn the essentials of creating innovations, founding a biotech start-up, business management strategies, and European funding sources. In addition, the book discusses topics such as intellectual property management and innovation transfer. The book offers a comparative analysis of different countries’ perspectives and reviews the status quo in Western and Eastern Europeanregions, also in comparison with other leading biotech countries such as the USA and Canada. A long list of potentially profitable biotech start-up ideas and a collection of success stories involving European companies are also included. The book is based on the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project “Supporting biotechnology students oriented towards an entrepreneurial path” (www.supbioent.usamv.ro), which involved the collaboration of Life Sciences and Economics departments at higher education institutions throughout Western and Eastern Europe.  

• Curatore: Florentina Matei, Daniela Zirra
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 258 p.
• Dimensioni: 254 x 178 mm
• EAN: 9783030221430

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