Commercializing Innovation - Jerome Schaufeld

Commercializing Innovation

Turning Technology Breakthroughs into Products
Buch | Softcover
190 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed.
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4302-6352-4 (ISBN)
53,49 inkl. MwSt
Commercializing Innovation: Turning Technology Breakthroughs into Products shows how to turn ideas from R&D labs, universities, patent offices, and inventors into commercially successful products and services.

Commercializing technology has never been easy, and it's getting tougher all the time. All the decisions you need to make are complicated by today's breakneck rates of change in enabling technology and by competitive pressures disseminated globally at the speed of the internet: Where to get ideas? Which to pursue? Whom to hire? Where to manufacture? How to fund? Create a startup or license to another? To answer these questions adequately and bring sophisticated products and services successfully to market, you need to deploy the systematic methods detailed in this book.

Jerry Schaufeld--serial technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and distinguished professor of entrepreneurship--presents in detail his proven step-by-step commercialization process, beginning with technology assessment and culminating with the successful launch of viable products into the global market. Using case studies, models, and practical tips culled from his entrepreneurial career, he shows readers of Commercializing Innovation how to







Source technology that can be turned into products

Recognize an opportunity to create a viable product

Perform feasibility analyses before sinking too much money into a project


Find the right method and means to introduce the product to market

Plan the project down to the last detail

Execute the project in ways that improve chances of its success

Comply with government regulation without crippling your project

Decide whether offshore manufacturing is your best option

Compete globally with globally sourced ideas and funding

Jerome Schaufeld's wealth of experience in entrepreneurship, operations, and general management of technology-based companies ranges from his current role as Professor of Entrepreneurship at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to an assignment as a commercialization consultant at Children's Hospital in Boston. He served as Director of the RI Slater Fund, was President and CEO of Mass Ventures, and he has a "hands on" track record in several early-stage companies that ranges from functional to board-level advisory roles. He is a member of the Launch Pad Angel Group in Wellesley and co-founder of the Cherrystone Angels in Rhode Island. In addition, Professor Schaufeld is an advisor to the Boynton Angel group, a charter member of the national Angel Capital Association (ACA), and a founder/ participant in the regional NE Angels ACA group. Professor Schaufeld was a founder and the first Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum. He also founded the Incus Group, which is a CEO-level business acquisition and resource organization. Professor Schaufeld was co-founder of Phoenix Controls Corporation. The company pioneered an approach to the control of air flow in critical laboratory and hospital environments and was successfully sold to a Fortune 500 company. With a graduate engineering degree, research experience at MIT, an MBA, professional engineer's license, and Professional Board Director's Certification, Professor Schaufeld has a distinguished technical and operations-savvy managerial career. His current interest and research is in the area of improving the probability of success in early stage, innovative, technology-based ventures.

Chapter 1. The Legacy and Myths Of Technology Commercialization.- Chapter 2. The Commercialization Model.- Chapter 3. Sources of Ideas.- Chapter 4. Opportunity Recognition.- Chapter 5. Feasibility Analysis.- Chapter 6. Project Plan.- Chapter 7. How to Go to Market.- Chapter 8. The Numbers.- Chapter 9. Organizational Dynamics.- Chapter 10. ROI: Does It Make Sense?.- Chapter 11. Big Brother: Friend or Foe?.- Chapter 12. Global Competitive Forces: The Final Arbiter

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.8.2015
Zusatzinfo 41 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 190 p. 41 illus.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte Produktinnovation
ISBN-10 1-4302-6352-0 / 1430263520
ISBN-13 978-1-4302-6352-4 / 9781430263524
Zustand Neuware
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