Entrepreneurship and Commercialization at Universities: A Faculty Perspective

Abstract

601 This paper discusses entrepreneurial and commercialization activities at universities from the personal experience of Nasser Peyghambarian, an inventor on 34 patents and founder of two start-up companies. In his twenty years leading start-ups, he has experienced both the challenges and the rewards of working through the technology transfer process within a university environment, beginning in the 1990s when universities had just begun engaging in commercializing inventions stemming from research.