By Eric Crawley, Entrepreneur-in-Residence NanoPreneurship can bring on a new set of challenges for researchers who are more accustomed to the lab and academic environments than the world of business. They are often focused on how something works, which is
Featured campus resource: The UMass Amherst Libraries online business collection
Think NanoPreneurship™ interviews Michael Davis, business reference librarian, W. E. B. Du Bois Library Q. What’s most important for campus scientists and engineers considering nanopreneurship to know about the UMass Libraries business and entrepreneurship reference resources? A. First, I want
Nano-based ventures and value chains
Nanotechnology rarely, if ever, reaches the end user in its raw form. This means that a nanopreneur must give thought to how and where a new venture will be situated within the value chain of businesses and transactions that will
Is there such a thing as a nanotech startup?
As a nanopreneur, how do you describe, characterize and categorize your venture? Businesses are often characterized as belonging in a particular industry. A great deal of this is informal but not arbitrary or unimportant. Characterizing a new venture effectively can