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

总结。美国国家科学基金会（NSF）为本次主题研讨会的与会者/演讲者提供资金支持。美国化学学会聚合化学分部已经建立了一个独特而多样化的团队，由来自工业界、学术界和政府的组织者组成，专注于聚合科学和技术领域的创业精神这一重要主题。高分子科学与技术是材料研究的一个重要组成部分，与当前NSF的许多计划重叠。当今全球竞争对聚合物化学家的需求要求他们在科学方面受过良好的训练，他们的行为更像企业家，以满足永不满足的技术创新经济。企业家将创意转化为成功，许多企业家的成功与国家科学基金会的项目直接相关。本次研讨会将重点关注通过实验实现的突破性发明，新兴的，以及面向材料研究的前沿技术。工业界、学术界和政府之间更紧密的合作应该增加成功故事的数量、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。企业活动，从确定需求，基础研究，开发新颖和有用的技术，保护发明，获得资金，成为一个自我维持的业务将被审查。我们的目标是提供最新的、实用的信息，这些信息是基于导致现实世界经验的科学突破。研讨会将以创业辅导开始。讨论将集中于基础聚合物和相关科学，科学家和工程师在市场上面临的挑战和机遇，以促进对创业精神的理解。邀请对这一多样化和不断发展的领域的最新发展和进步感兴趣的科学家、工程师和技术人员进行口头和海报演讲。

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.