Academic entrepreneurship: how to bring your scientific discovery to a successful commercial product by
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
The pathway to bringing laboratory discoveries to market is poorly understood and generally new to many academics. This book serves as an easy-to-read roadmap for translating technology to a product launch - guiding university faculty and graduate students on launching a start-up company. * Addresses a growing trend of academic faculty commercializing their discoveries, especially those supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health * Offers faculty a pathway and easy-to-follow steps towards determining whether their discovery / idea / technology is viable from a business perspective, as well as how to execute the necessary steps to create and launch a start-up company * Has a light-hearted and accessible style of a step-by-step guide to help graduate students, post-docs, and faculty learn how to go about spinning out their research from the lab * Includes interviews by faculty in the disciplines of materials science, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, information technology, energy, and mechanical devices - offering tips and discussing potential pitfalls to be avoided
Beyond discovery : moving academic research to the market by
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
Contents (from LINC): Academic discoveries account for some of the most successful products in the marketplace, from pharmaceutical blockbusters like Lyricar to household names like GatoradeTM. Yet few researchers understand the process of technology transfer or the various pathways for commercialisation available to them. 'Beyond Discovery' is a guide for researchers interested in moving their inventions from the laboratory to the marketplace. Focusing particularly on scientists and engineers, the volume demystifies the process of commercialisation by offering clarity on key complex topics, including technology transfer, intellectual property, and the uneven landscape for inventors of different genders and ethnicities.
Commercialization secrets for scientists and engineers by
Boca Raton : CRC Press
Commercializing a knowledge-based product or service requires a realistic, methodical approach combined with a great deal of perseverance. Commercialization Secrets for Scientists and Engineersserves as a high-level guide to answering key questions and critical issues that confront founding entrepreneurs on their quest to commercialize their knowledge-based innovations. It highlights the unique problems shared by all technologists across knowledge-intensive fields and how to overcome the most predictable obstacles faced by technology entrepreneurs. It demystifies the process of commercializing advanced products that require a high degree of specialized knowledge. Typically, these are "disruptive technologies" with the potential to revolutionize whole industries. The book simplifies the launch of high-tech ventures such as pharmaceuticals, genetic and biotechnology products, wireless devices, fuel cells, and minimally invasive medical devices. Additionally, it will help readers bring their disruptive technologies to profitability.
Innovating : a doer's manifesto for starting from a hunch, prototyping problems, scaling up, and learning to be productively wrong by
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press
Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact. Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential investors. In Innovating, Luis Perez-Breva describes another approach -- a doer's approach developed over a decade at MIT and internationally in workshops, classes, and companies. He shows that to start innovating it doesn't require an earth-shattering idea; all it takes is a hunch. Anyone can do it. By prototyping a problem and learning by being wrong, innovating can be scaled up to make an impact. As Perez-Breva demonstrates, "no thing is new" at the outset of what we only later celebrate as innovation. In Innovating, the process -- illustrated by unique and dynamic artwork -- is shown to be empirical, experimental, nonlinear, and incremental. You give your hunch the structure of a problem. Anything can be a part. Your innovating accrues other people's knowledge and skills. Perez-Breva describes how to create a kit for innovating, and outlines questions that will help you think in new ways. Finally, he shows how to systematize what you've learned: to advocate, communicate, scale up, manage innovating continuously, and document -- "you need a notebook to converse with yourself," he advises. Everyone interested in innovating also needs to read this book.
Linked innovation [electronic resource] : commercializing discoveries at research centers by
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
Contents (from LINC): --1. The Dilemma: Academic Quality or Economic Sustainability -- 2. From Broken to Linked Innovation: The Underlying Concept -- 3. Stage 1 - Research: Selecting Performance Metrics based on Academic, Economic, and Social Impact -- 4. Stage 2 - Transformation: Translating Discoveries into Impact for the Market through Design Thinking -- 5. Stage 3 - Commercialization: Designing Collaborative Business Models for University-Industry-Government Relations -- 6. All Stages - Innovation Ecosystem: Qualifying and Leveraging the Internal and External Agents based on Merit -- 7. Conclusions.
Mastering Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation : A Step-by-Step Guide for Researchers and Inventors by
2nd ed.
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
Series: Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics, 2511-2031
Content (from LINC): Part 1: The Long Road Ahead -- 1. An Invention Is Not An Innovation -- 2. Can Every Idea Be Transformed into an Innovation? -- 3. What Are The Driving Forces for Innovation? -- 4. Can Everybody Be an Innovator? -- 5. The Long, Hard Road Ahead -- 6. The Critical Milestones -- Part 2: Cloistered Creativity -- 7. The Birth of the Idea -- 8. How Do You Determine If a New Technology Has Value?- 9. Critical Milestone 1: Proof of Concept -- 10. Research and Development -- 11. Strategy for Protection and Freedom for Use -- 12. Critical Milestone 2: Validation of Technical Feasibility for Applications -- Part 3: Maturing in the Real World -- 13. Out Into the Real World: Scaling Up -- 14. Business Planning for New Entrepreneurs -- 15. Critical Milestone 3: The Industrial Prototype and Validation of Economic Viability -- 16. A Researcher's Strategy for Technology Transfer -- 17. Industrialisation -- 18. On to the Market! -- 19. What Can Go Wrong? -- Part 4: Case Studies in Technology Transfer -- 20. Case Study 1. Microwave Heating Process for Bulk Ceramics -- 21. Case Study 2. High-Hardness, High-Toughness, Nanostructured Coatings for Gears and Axles -- 22. Case Study 3. Advanced Energy Cells for Portable Power Tools and Other Devices -- 23. Case Study 4. Advanced Nanostructured Coatings for High-Precision Turning of Very Hard Materials -- 24. Case Study 5. Nanostructured Medical Preparation -- 25. Case Study 6. Specialist Cross Platform Interface Software -- 26. Case Study 7. Low Cost Inorganic Pigments -- 27. Case Study 8. Low Cost Contact Brushes For High Power Electric Motors -- Part 5: Glory Years, Natural Decline and Renewal -- 28. Glory Years -- 29. Natural Decline And Renewal -- 30. Closing Remarks.
Patent engineering : a guide to building a valuable patent portfolio and controlling the marketplace by
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; Salem, Massachusetts : Scrivener Publishing LLC
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
Patents are a vital asset in the modern business world. They allow patent holders to introduce new products in to a market while deterring other market players from simply copying innovative features without making comparable investments in research and development. In years past, a few patents may have provided adequate protection. That is no longer the case. In today's world, it is critical that innovative companies protect the features of their products that give them a competitive advantage with a family or portfolio of patents that are strategically generated to protect the market position of the patent holder. A patent portfolio that deters competitors from introducing competitive products in a timely manner can be worth billions of dollars. Anything less than this is an expensive and possibly fatal distraction. This book provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of patent portfolios that protect your investments in research and development and that extend the market advantages that these investments provide.
Below are some books on patent searching, management of patent resources, intellectual property in general, etc.
From invention to patent [electronic resource] : a scientist and engineer's guide by
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons
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Invention and patents continues to be an important issue in technology and our global economy. Invention and Patenting provides a clear picture of how to be a prolific inventor, to understand patents, and the patent process. It provides an illuminating insight into the writing of invention disclosures to patents from the submission process to final drafts. The book shows how to communicate effectively with patent lawyers and patent examiners, teaching the language of "legalese." This book is unique in covering both the early invention process to final patent drafting to provide high quality patents in technologies. Key features include: How to become an inventor, how to invent, to what is invention; How to write an invention disclosure to writing a patent; Examples of utility, design, and plant patents; How to prepare the background section, brief listing of figures, detailed description of the invention, claims, abstract to artwork; Using patent search engines; Writing independent and dependent claims; Analyzing office actions of the US and European patent offices; How to write an office action response and amending claims; and, Examples of Office Action responses, preliminary amendments, to notice of allowance response; Invention and Patenting is the first book by an engineer and inventor from a technologist's point of view. It is an essential reference for engineers and inventors. It is also useful for graduate and undergraduate students in technology and the sciences.
Intellectual property in chemistry : : a guide to applying for and obtaining a patent for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars by 
Patent, copyright and trademark [electronic resource] : an intellectual property desk reference by
16th ed. Berkley, CA : Nolo
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
A plain-English guide to intellectual property law. Whether you are in the world of business or creative arts, understanding the laws that govern your work is critical to success. But given the convoluted terminology that surrounds patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, this isn't easy. Enter Patent, Copyright & Trademark, which explains: what legal rights apply to your creations, products, or inventions different types of patents for inventions from machines to plant clones the scope of copyright protection how trademark law works, and what trade-secret law protects. Here, you'll find readily understandable definitions of intellectual property law terms, straightforward explanations of how intellectual property law affects online content, and much more. The 16th edition is completely updated to provide the latest laws, court decisions, and sample application and other forms.
Patent analytics [electronic resource] : transforming IP strategy into intelligence by
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
Summary (from LINC): Through the prisms of a data scientist, a patent attorney, and a designer, this book demystifies the complexity of patent data and its structure and reveals their hidden connections by employing elaborate data analytics and visualizations using a network map. This book provides a practical guide to introduce and apply patent network analytics and visualization tools in your business. We incorporate case studies from renowned companies such as Apple, Dyson, Adobe, Bose, Samsung and more, to scrutinise how their underlying values of patent network drive innovation in their business. Finally, this book advances readers’ perspective of patent gazettes as big data and as a tool for innovation analytics when coupled with Artificial Intelligence.
Patent engineering [electronic resource] : a guide to building a valuable patent portfolio and controlling the marketplace by
Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; Salem, Massachusetts : Scrivener Publishing LLC
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
Patents are a vital asset in the modern business world. They allow patent holders to introduce new products in to a market while deterring other market players from simply copying innovative features without making comparable investments in research and development. In years past, a few patents may have provided adequate protection. That is no longer the case. In today's world, it is critical that innovative companies protect the features of their products that give them a competitive advantage with a family or portfolio of patents that are strategically generated to protect the market position of the patent holder. A patent portfolio that deters competitors from introducing competitive products in a timely manner can be worth billions of dollars. Anything less than this is an expensive and possibly fatal distraction. This book provides a strategic framework for cost efficient engineering of patent portfolios that protect your investments in research and development and that extend the market advantages that these investments provide.
Patent it yourself : your step-by-step guide to filing at the U.S. Patent Office by
19th ed. Berkeley : Nolo
Protect and profit from your invention For over 30 years, Patent It Yourself has guided hundreds of thousands of inventors through the process of getting a patent, from start to finish. Patent attorneys David Pressman and David E. Blau provide the latest information, forms, and clear instructions to help you: conduct a patent search the right way evaluate your idea's commercial potential file a provisional patent application to get "patent pending" status prepare a patent application focus on your patent application's claims respond to patent examiners get your drawings done right protect your rights in foreign countries deal with infringers, and market and license your invention. The 19th edition covers the latest implications of the first-to-file rules created by the America Invents Act.
This is a select list of books on patent law available at NUS Libraries.
C.I.P.A. guide to the Patents Act
London : Thomson Reuters/Sweet & Maxwell
Essentials of patent claim drafting by
Albany, N.Y. : Matthew Bender & Co.
"This book is intended as an introductory text to the art of patent claim drafting, and also as a reference guide for patent practitioners. The book is written primarily for the novice patent attorneys and agents, law students, and those studying for the patent bar exam. Although experience in the drafting of patent applications, and patent claims in particular, is not required, a basic knowledge of U.S. patents and U.S. patent law is assumed." (Preface, page xiii)
Invention analysis and claiming by
2nd ed. Chicago : American Bar Association, General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division
Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer's Guide, Second Edition, presents a comprehensive approach to analyzing inventions and capturing them in a sophisticated set of patent claims. A central theme is the importance of using the problem-solution paradigm to identify the "inventive concept" before the claim-drafting begins. The book's teachings are grounded in "old school" principles of patent practice that, before now, have been learned only on the job from supervisors and mentors. Questions at the end of each chapter have been added to: Confirm the understanding of the principles presented; Explore the jurisprudential and practical implications of those principles; and Try out the invention analysis and claim drafting skills taught in the chapter."
Law of intellectual property of Singapore by
Revised third ed. Singapore : Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters
Online version available (for NUS staff and students only)
Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology by
6th ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Patents for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology is the established and highly-acclaimed introduction to patent law and practice, guiding the reader through the legal and procedural complexities of the British, European, Japanese, and United States patent systems. It explains in detailthe role of patent practitioners, both in private practice and in-house, in maximising the commercial potential of their company's or client's products. The eagerly awaited new sixth edition of this highly respected text has been fully revised and updated to discuss major new developments in patent law, patent aspects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), developments in the area of competition law and patents, and all relevant case law of the US, UK,and the European Patent Office (EPO). This is a comprehensive and invaluable guide to this rapidly developing and increasingly globalised area of law, providing a full description of the techniques and industry know-how that underlie successful patent practice and portfolio management.
Roughton, Johnson and Cook on Patents by
Formerly known as: The Modern Law of Patents
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