University Startups and Spin-Offs teaches university students researchers and educators the
most effective strategies and tactics for launching their own startups from academic platforms
with the backing of school programs public grants incubators seed accelerators and private
partnerships in all parts of the world. Serial entrepreneur Manuel Stagars advises students
faculty and researchers how to test their ideas for marketability how to develop commercial
products out of research projects and how to engage companies and investors with attractive
value propositions. The author has seventeen years of experience as startup entrepreneur
founder of seven companies in the United States Europe and Japan consultant to universities
on commercializing their research programs angel investor and startup mentor. Stagars' advice
is field-tested battle-hardened and supported with a wealth of instructive first-hand
examples from his international experience. The author advises academic entrepreneurs to take
matters into their own hands instead of relying on the initiative and support of universities
and governments. He shows students and researchers how to fit lean startup methods to their
existing university ecosystems leveraging their strengths without getting bogged down in
bureaucratic morass. Avoiding theory and jargon the book focuses on real-world situations
practical steps checklists and case studies. University students and researchers will learn
the skills they need to become startup entrepreneurs on an academic platform. The final part of
University Startups and Spin-Offs addresses university administrators educators technology
licensing officers incubator managers and government grant officers. It shows them with
practical examples from the private and academic sectors how to integrate startups into the
fabric of the university develop a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem for students and
researchers leverage latent network effects build bridges between scientific research and
industries seeking innovative solutions enhance the public image of the university and
motivate the university's best and brightest to engage in startup enterprises that will deliver
benefits to the university and the public as well as to themselves.
