Chemistry Entrepreneurship

by Garcí; a-Martí; nez, Javier; Li, Kunhao

• ISBN13: 9783527345441
• ISBN10: 3527345442
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-03-14
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Summary

A groundbreaking guide to the commercialization of scientific breakthroughs in chemistry, from successful entrepreneurs

Chemistry Entrepreneurship is a step-by-step guide that is specifically devoted to understanding what it takes to start and grow a new company in the chemistry sector. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers the various aspects of the creation of a new chemical enterprise including: the protection of the invention, the business plan, the transfer from the research center or university, the financing, the legal setup, the launching of the company and its growth and exit strategies.

This hands-on book contains the information needed to help to determine if you have what it takes to be a chemistry entrepreneur, explains how to take an ideas out of the lab and into the real world, reveals how to develop your burgeoning business, and shows how to sustain and grow your business. This much-needed resource also includes interviews with founding scientists who created their own successful chemical companies. This important book:

• Provides the practical information on how to start a company based on a scientific breakthrough
• Offers information on the mindset it takes to become, and remain, successful in the marketplace
• Presents case studies from world-renowned and highly experienced professionals who have successfully started a company

Written for chemists in industry, chemists, materials scientists, chemical engineers, Chemistry Entrepreneurshipis a guide for becoming a founder of a successful chemical company.

Author Biography

Javier García-Martínez is the founder of Rive Technology, Inc. in Boston, USA, a spin-off from MIT , and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and the director of the Molecular Nanotechnology Lab at the University of Alicante, Spain. Since 2011 he is a member of the Bureau of IUPAC and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His work has been honored with the European Young Chemist Award in 2006, MIT's Technology Review Award (TR35) in 2007, and by the World Economic Forum, which selected him as a Young Global Leader in 2009. Professor García-Martínez has published extensively in the areas of nanomaterials, catalysis, and energy, and also has over 25 patents to his name.

Kunhao Li is a Project Leader at Rive Technology, Inc. since 2008. He has been heavily involved in the improvement of Rive's core technology in zeolite mesostructuring processes, zeolites and catalysts characterization, testing, and evaluation, as well as extension of application areas of mesostructured zeolites to chemical separations and other catalytic processes. He obtained PhD in chemistry at The George Washington University and did postdoctoral research at Rutgers University. His research work has resulted in many publications in the form of original papers and reviews, book chapters, technical reports, patent applications, and patents.

Table of Contents

Introduction
From Scientific Breakthrough to Business Opportunities
Protection of Scientific Discoveries
Creation of Business Plans
Creating of a Winning Team
Technology Transfer from University to Company
Raising Money at the Right Time
Dealing with Investors
Growing the Business
Exit Strategy
Case Studies
Concluding Remarks