Speaker/Attendee Support at the Entrepreneurship in Polymers and Technology Symposium, September 10-14, 2006, San Francisco, CA

摘要基金要求从国家科学基金会（NSF）forattendee /扬声器支持的标题专题讨论会。ACS高分子化学部建立了一个独特而多样化的组织者团队，来自工业界，学术界和政府，专注于聚合物科学和技术创业的重要主题。高分子科学与技术是材料研究的重要组成部分，与目前NSF的许多倡议重叠。当今全球竞争对聚合物化学家的要求要求是，他们必须在科学方面受过良好的训练，并且他们的行为更像企业家，以满足永不满足的技术创新经济。一个企业家将创造性的想法转化为成功，许多企业家的成功与NSF计划直接相关。本次研讨会将集中在突破性的发明，使实验的新颖，新兴和开拓性的技术导向材料研究。工业界、学术界和政府之间的密切合作应该增加成功案例的数量、速度和影响，并突出强调创业的必要性。研讨会将涵盖导致新技术开发和商业化的基础研究。创业活动，从确定一个需要，基础研究，开发新的和有用的技术，保护发明，获得资金，成为一个自我维持的企业将被审查。我们的目标是提供基于科学突破的最新实用信息，这些科学突破导致了真实的世界经验。研讨会开始时将有一个关于企业家精神的辅导。讨论将侧重于基础聚合物和相关科学，科学家和工程师在市场上的挑战和机遇，以促进对创业精神的理解。科学家，工程师和技术人员感兴趣的最新发展和进步，在这个多样化和不断增长的领域被邀请贡献口头和海报介绍。

SUMMARY. Funds are requested from the National Science Foundation (NSF) forattendee / speaker support for the title symposium. The ACS Division of PolymerChemistry has established a unique and diverse team of organizers from industry,academia, and government focused on the important topic of entrepreneurship in polymerscience and technology. Polymer science and technology is an important component ofmaterials research which overlaps with many current NSF initiatives. The globalcompetitive demands on polymer chemists today require that they be well trained inscience and that they behave more like entrepreneurs to feed an insatiable technologicallyinnovative economy. An entrepreneur transforms creative ideas into successes and manyof the entrepreneurial success are directly related to NSF programs. This symposium willfocus on breakthrough inventions enabled by experimentation on novel, emerging, andpioneering technologies oriented toward materials research. Closer collaborationbetween industry, academia and government should increase the number, speed andimpact of success stories and place prominent emphasis on the necessity ofentrepreneurship.The symposium will cover basic research leading to new technology development andcommercialization. Entrepreneurial activities ranging from identifying a need, to basicresearch, to developing novel and useful technology, to protecting the invention, toobtaining funding, to becoming a self-sustaining business will be reviewed. Our objectiveis to provide current, practical information that is based on scientific breakthroughsleading to real world experiences. The symposium will begin with a tutorial onentrepreneurship. Discussions will focus on fundamental polymer and related science,challenges and opportunities for scientists and engineers in the market to facilitate anunderstanding of entrepreneurship. Scientists, engineers and technologists interested inthe latest developments and advances in this diverse and growing area are invited tocontribute oral and poster presentations.