Scientists as Entrepreneurs: Scientific Ideas vs. Entrepreneurial Ideas
This webinar is hosted By: Applied Spectroscopy Technical Group
12 January 2023 14:00 - 15:00
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)Researchers and scientists often categorize themselves in a specific role or field, such as physicists or chemists. Yet through their years of training, they have all come to possess the more general and essential ability of “problem-solving.” Thinking as a problem-solver rather than as a specialist will open more opportunities with a broader range of things a scientist can do. Through this series hosted by the Applied Spectroscopy Technical Group, two experts will help unlock the potential of scientists as problem-solvers by answering specific questions about entrepreneurship and using scientific ideas as means to solve problems in the real world.
As both scientist and entrepreneur, Prof. Davide Iannuzzi will describe the differences between scientific ideas and entrepreneurial ideas and why scientists should consider the path to entrepreneurship. The discussion about various business strategies and how to adapt them for scientific entrepreneurship is at the heart of this interview. We will talk with Prof. Iannuzzi about the principles of scientific entrepreneurship and how to explore and evaluate good ideas from the lab and turn them into successful products. Resources that scientists have for starting a company will be discussed, as well as the interesting strategy of “Effectuation Theory,” which can be used to overcome the uncertainties attached to the entrepreneurial process.
What You Will Learn:
• Internal and external motivations for a scientist to become an entrepreneur
• How scientific ideas are different from entrepreneurial ideas
• How to explore and evaluate potential ideas for startups
Who Should Attend:
• This series will benefit PhD students, postdocs and researchers, as well as scientists interested in bringing their ideas from the lab to the market and becoming entrepreneurs, either through a startup or as a scientific employee in the private sector.
About Our Speaker: Davide Iannuzzi of VU University Amsterdam and Optics11
Davide Iannuzzi is Professor in Experimental Physics at the VU University Amsterdam, where he serves as Chief Impact Officer. He is also one of the two founders of Optics11 BV (a scale up firm based in Amsterdam) and the founding father of the Demonstrator Lab (an academic entrepreneurship laboratory that he has directed for five years). After a career dedicated to education, research, and knowledge transfer, he is now focusing on creating the conditions for scientists to produce the financial and societal impact that our society expects them to deliver. Davide further serves in a number of Advisory and Supervisory Boards, and is author of the book “Entrepreneurship for Physicists”.
