Engineering a high-tech business : entrepreneurial experiences and insights /

This book provides actual entrepreneurial stories giving insight into the pitfalls and successes one might find in starting or even continuing with a small high-tech business. Insights into innovative, speculative, and (largely) successful new ventures, as experienced by those who went through the p...

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Corporate Author: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Other Authors: Culshaw, Brian, López-Higuera, José Miguel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. (1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA) : SPIE, 2008.
Series:SPIE monograph ; PM182.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book provides actual entrepreneurial stories giving insight into the pitfalls and successes one might find in starting or even continuing with a small high-tech business. Insights into innovative, speculative, and (largely) successful new ventures, as experienced by those who went through the process, are complemented by comments and observations from others in the field including researchers, economists, investors, regional development agencies, technology transfer organizations, and universities. The book is recommended to entrepreneurs in all high technology disciplines and in particular for students and early career professionals. It can be also useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in entrepreneurship, which many institutions are currently introducing, and to those who are interested in how a high-tech business might develop.
Item Description:"PM182"--P. [4] of cover.
"SPIE digital library."
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print version.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780819478429 (electronic)
DOI:10.1117/3.786604
Access:Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.