Technology Startup Narratives

Light a spark!

Ignite startups requiring research and development driven by ideas seeded by dreamy minds.

The result?

Job creating firms that enhance long-term, leading-edge innovation capacity.

How is this done?

Surround and nurture them, at the earliest stages, with a vigorous ecosystem to help form the right team, attract powerful partners, and gain market traction.

To help small companies raise required growth capital.

This volume is a collection of case studies featuring innovative small businesses seeded by public funds to help bring new products and services to market for economic and societal benefit.

It describes how an effective innovation program creates successful technology startups and increased long-term, leading-edge innovation capabilities by catalyzing collaborations between industry, academe, government, and private capital.

Twenty-two narratives cover the entire gamut of technologies arising out of basic research investments, from life sciences to physical sciences, from synthetic biology and medical devices to nanotechnology and sophisticated instruments.

They explain the differing, varying aspects of current technology development trends and outcomes: Robots pick lettuce, emotions computed, batteries printed, sensual touchscreens, no need for spiders to make silk, fabrics that remember, clothes to harvest energy, and displays that bend and twist.