Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Tom Byers, Stanford Technology Ventures Program - Richard C. Dorf, University of California at Davis - Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise, 2nd ed.

Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise, 2nd ed.

Tom Byers Biography

Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University where he focuses on high-technology entrepreneurship education. He is founder and a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which serves as the entrepreneurship center for the engineering school. STVP includes the Mayfield Fellows work/study program, Educators Corner website of teaching resources, and global Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education conferences. Tom is also a faculty director of the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute, a general management program for technology executives. Tom is co-author of the textbook called "Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise" (McGraw-Hill, 2005). Tom also holds a visiting professor appointment at the London Business School and University College London.

Tom currently serves as a director on the boards of Reactivity and Flywheel Ventures. In addition, he serves on advisory boards or committees of the American Society for Engineering Education's Entrepreneu...

Stanford Technology Ventures Program

Richard C. Dorf Biography

Richard C. Dorf is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Management at the University of California, Davis. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the society, as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). The best-selling author of Introduction to Electric Circuits (6th Ed.), Modern Control Systems (10th Ed.), Handbook of Electrical Engineering (3rd Ed.), Handbook of Engineering (2nd Ed.), and Handbook of Technology Management, Dr. Dorf is co-founder of six technology firms.

University of California at Davis

McGraw-Hill

2006-10-12

670 pages

ID: 803

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Description: [From Amazon] Technology Ventures is the first textbook to thoroughly examine a global phenomenon known as "technology entrepreneurship". Now in its second edition, this book integrates the most valuable entrepreneurship and technology management theories from some of the world's leading scholars and educators with current examples of new technologies and an extensive suite of media resources.

Dorf and Byers's comprehensive collection of action-oriented concepts and applications provides both students and professionals with the tools necessary for success in starting and growing a technology enterprise. Technology Ventures details the critical differences between scientific ideas and true business opportunities. Additionally, the book contains a DVD media package of video segments from the STVP Educators Corner website featuring world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and Stanford professors.

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