Academic Entrepreneurship Creating the Ecosystem for Your University

With the increasing interest in entrepreneurship, a wealth of new ideas and technologies, and a need for new sources of revenue, the focus of this book is to provide insights on the process, elements, and activities needed for a university to successfully create new entrepreneurial ventures. The topics covered include: establishing the process itself, patents and copyrights, the role of incubators and accelerators, and funding sources for starting and growing the new ventures. This book provides the basics for a university to fulfill its third mission — to positively impact the well being of the surrounding area and the local, national, and world economies.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate level students, university faculty, professionals and those interested in academic entrepreneurship.

Robert D Hisrich, former Director of the Walker Center of Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management, received his BA in English and Science from DePauw University and his MBA and PhD in Business Administration with a major in marketing from the University of Cincinnati. Hisrich also holds honorary doctorate degrees from Chuvash State University (Russia) and the University of Miskolc (Hungary) and has held two Fullbright Professor positions.

Tony Stanco, Esq. is the founder and executive director of the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and co-founder of National Angels USA. Previously he was the director of the Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer and Commercialization (CET2C) of The George Washington University. Mr Stanco was a senior attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also has worked on innovation policy, including start-up creation and funding by angel investors and VCs. At School of Engineering and Applied Science at The George Washington University, Mr Stanco worked with universities and governments around the world on innovation policy, startup finance policy, software policy, Open Source, cyber-security, and e-Government issues. Mr Stanco has appeared before the US Congress, various US defense and civilian agencies, the World Bank, the European Commission, United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank, and Organization of American States. Mr Stanco teaches the Lab to IPO course dealing with start-up formation and funding. He has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center in securities regulation and is licensed as a lawyer in New York state.

Dr Helena S Wisniewski is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Department Chair at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. She has executive and leadership experience in academia, industry, and government. As Vice Provost for Research at UAA and Vice President for Research and Enterprise Development at Stevens Institute of Technology, she led and created ecosystems of entrepreneurship and innovation, significantly increased patent portfolios, and launched multiple startups across diverse technological areas. She directed corporate wide technology innovations as an executive at the Lockheed Corporation, and a Vice President at the Titan Corporation, and ANSER. As Founder and CEO of Aurora Biometrics she built an international business, and sold the company. At DARPA, she identified and directed many breakthrough advances in math and science, as Manager of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Program. Among her awards is the 2002 Women in Technology Leadership Award for Entrepreneurship.