High Technology Entrepreneurship: From Concept to Venture

Tuesday September 29th UPR Medical Sciences Campus
Amphitheater B103, School of Dental Medicine
1st Floor Main Building
Co-Sponsored by Kinesis and the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program
at the UPR Medical Sciences Campus NCRR-G12-RR0351

Part 1- Presentation "From Concept to Venture" 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.

Dr. Crawford will present technology-based entrepreneurial case studies, such as nano-science, energy science, drug discovery, medical diagnostics, sophisticated algorithms, and green technology. He will discuss his experience starting businesses based on science in our increasingly complex, technologically oriented economy. Dr. Crawford will share his ideas for individuals who are deeply grounded in science to manage human, financial, and technological capital to meet the growing demand for their services.

Part 2 - An Interactive Session with Attendees “High Technology

Entrepreneurship Workshop" 2:00 - 4:00 P.M
Participants may bring in sample ideas or a general business plan outline focused on science and technology, such as nano-science, energy science, drug discovery, medical diagnostics, sophisticated algorithms, green technology, etc. to discuss.

Dean Crawford's teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

About the Instructor

Gregory P. Crawford's research focuses on soft matter materials, photonic materials, medical devices, displays, Nano-science, magnetic resonance, and photonic devices. The creative deployment of his basic research has resulted in two biotechnology start-up companies-Myomics, Inc. and Corum Medical, Inc. During the 2003 2004 academic year, Dean Crawford was on sabbatical at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands working on the underlying physics of novel phenomena of patterned liquid crystals and polymers with potential use in displays and security applications. In the summer of 1999, he was a visiting research professor at Philips Research Laboratory (Natlab) in Eindhoven, working on the physics and applications of emissive and lasing materials. Dean Crawford has over 300 research and education publications, review articles and book chapters, holds 16 US patents, and is the editor of a number of books: Liquid Crystals in Complex Geometries formed by Polymer and Porous Networks; Flexible Flat Panel Displays; Liquid Crystals; Frontiers in Biomedical Applications; and Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers (to appear in 2009). He also served as editor of a special edition on nano-technology in Displays and Medical Displays for the Journal for the Society for Information Display. He is a fellow of the Society for Information Display.

Dean Crawford's teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate level.