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Entrepreneurs and Innovation - Creating Value with Emerging Technologies
Entrepreneurs and Innovation Creating Value with Emerging Technologies Author:Keith Herndon Significant advances in communication and computing technology have ignited a new wave of innovation in the U.S., especially in the areas of wireless communications, biotechnology, clean technology and alternative energy. Led by passionate entrepreneurs, businesses are creating products and services that will change every facet of the way we liv... more »e. This book features interviews with a dozen experts who provide valuable insight into the process of creating value with emerging technologies. Entrepreneurs and Innovation features successful entrepreneurs who relate their own experiences, and it also includes experts in intellectual property law, technology commercialization and venture capital. The introduction explores the ubiquity of technology in a world that produces more transistors than grains of rice and explains how inexpensive computing power has formed a platform that encourages innovation across a broad spectrum. As John Bacon, a partner at IP2Biz, states in his interview, ''The opportunities today to find inventions that can fuel the creation of wealth are greater than they have ever been. I've been in this game since the middle '60s and there has never been anything like this. There are new frontiers to be explored.'' The interviews, which are presented in a question and answer format, provide an excellent way to begin the journey. Any entrepreneur attempting to launch or grow a technology-based business will gain valuable insight from these experts who offer ''real world'' advice and perspective in the areas of commercializing technology, raising capital and the day-to-day effort required to run a growing business. A foreword by technology pioneer Ben Dyer, founder of Peachtree Software, also uses personal anecdotes from his storied career to explain the intersection of innovation and entrepreneurship.« less