Front Matter

Table of Contents

• Front Matter

• Part I: Reflections, Motives, and Money
• 1. Some Suggestions from an Economist to a New High-Tech Starter

• 2. The Academic Entrepreneur: An Oxymoron?

• 3. Money

• 4. Confessions of a Start-Up Junkie

• 5. Being an “Intrapreneur” and an Entrepreneur in the Optoelectronics Industry

• Part II: Some Case Studies
• 6. Mirada Solutions: The Case Study of a University Spin-Off

• 7. Building a Company the Old-Fashioned Way: Meadowlark Optics, Inc.

• 8. Building a Lasting Optical Design and Manufacturing Company

• 9. The Life and Times of a High-Tech Entrepreneur

• 10. A Case from Russia: IPG Photonics

• 11. Wacko WYKO

• 12. The Ocean Optics Story in a Nutshell

• 13. Experiences Starting a Nano-Sized Company

• 14. The Story of Fiberonics

• 15. Founding a Fiber-Optic Component and Sensor Business

• 16. How to Start a Small High-Tech Business in Troutdale, Oregon

• 17. SMARTEC: Bringing Fiber-Optic Sensors into Concrete Applications

• 18. “An Earth Odyssey” or Fibersensing

• 19. The First Years of Crystal Fibre A/S from a University Perspective

• 20. Multiwave Photonics: Building a Fiber Optics Company in Portugal

• Part III: Supporting the Entrepreneur
• 21. Developing High-Tech Companies in Spain and Portugal

• 22. Intellectual Property in High-Tech Entrepreneurship

• 23. Support for a Young Company

• Part IV: The Universities
• 24. Strategic Support: The Case of the Technical University of Madrid

• 25. University Research and the Optics Industry

• Back Matter