Can Academic Be a Successful Entrepreneur

Many academic especially in the medical field, from postgraduate studentto professor, may think working life is hard, with the today researchmoving so fast and with digital technology in the global world. To be ontop of the field requires constant reading and thinking, especially if onewants to stay on the top. The delivery from an academic generally includespublication in high impact journal, obtaining funding for research and tocarry out the research with positive or negative results, which both arevalid. However, when these compared with the commercialization ofthe idea, especially in the medical field, the task is much harder. Theuniversity education is a tremendous help when entrepreneurs needto understand different cultural and social environments. But it doesrequire learning new sets of skills and rules. Even the way of writing forfunding and report change significantly, sometimes much more difficultcompared writing high impact research paper. In my talk, I will highlightthe difficulty and benefit of an entrepreneurship. I also highlight theroute requires taking from an idea to commercialization and successfulproduct in the global market.

کلیدواژه ها:

Academic ، Entrepreneurship ، Commercialization