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Book SynopsisIn Sciencepreneurship, author Piero Formica explores the symbiotic relationship between science, entrepreneurship, and sustainable economic growth. He argues that like artists, writers and educators, scientists and entrepreneurs foster social progress and provide opportunities to advance sustainable and environmentally friendly economic development.
Innovative and future thinking entrepreneurs play a special role in the advancement of science and technology. They help guide scientific discoveries into our daily lives and reveal new opportunities for social innovation as they exploit the discoveries that scientists make of the natural world. Sciencepreneurship argues that forward-thinking scientific entrepreneurs are well placed to take advantage of recent breakthroughs ranging from genetic sequencing to smartphone applications—innovations that have entered our lives at breakneck speed.
Taking a transdisciplinary approach, which is one that integrates the natural, social and health sciences in a humanities context, Formica teaches readers, from academic researchers to engaged entrepreneurs, how to valorise science and entrepreneurship by designing a context of close, long-term interaction between the two.
Trade ReviewPiero Formica’s essay, Sciencepreneurship, shares his encyclopedic scope of knowledge, distilled with discerning wisdom, to yield a hopeful vision for a better future for all.
It’s a call for inter-disciplinary collaboration, with an openness to the richness of imagination and intuition, and ultimate focus on that which is broadly beneficial and sustainable.
Should be required reading for reflective class discussions in the first year of business school curricula.
-- Howard Eisenberg, President, Syntrek Inc.
Table of ContentsForeword. Sciencepreneurship: The Historical Perspectives; Alan Barrell
Chapter 1. Raising the curtain on science and scientific entrepreneurship
Chapter 2. Sciencepreneurship in a radically uncertain world
Chapter 3. The transition from continuity to discontinuity
Chapter 4. Connecting thought and action
Chapter 5. Scientists and literati: branches of the same tree
Chapter 6. Data science coexists with narratives
Chapter 7. An irreverent passion
Chapter 8. The road to sciencepreneurship
Chapter 9. Sciencepreneurship
Chapter 10. The uncertainty encircling science and the scientific enterprise
Chapter 11. Scientific entrepreneurship questions the science of possibility
Chapter 12. Sciencepreneurs for the well-being of mankind and nature
Chapter 13. The springtime of youth scientific entrepreneurship
Chapter 14. Learners: guardians and patrons of natural objects and all sentient beings
Chapter 15. Learners: Flowers blooming as agents of scientific entrepreneurship. Visionary investors turn to them
