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

总结。国家科学基金会(NSF)要求为标题研讨会的与会者/演讲者提供资金支持。美国化学学会聚合化学分部建立了一支由来自工业界、学术界和政府部门的组织者组成的独特和多样化的团队，专注于聚合物科学和技术中的创业这一重要主题。聚合物科学和技术是材料研究的一个重要组成部分，它与目前许多NSF倡议重叠。当今全球对聚合物化学家的竞争需求要求他们在科学方面接受过良好的培训，他们的行为更像是企业家，以满足永不满足的技术创新经济。企业家将创造性的想法转化为成功，而许多企业家的成功都与NSF项目直接相关。本次研讨会将聚焦于通过面向材料研究的新颖、新兴和开创性技术的实验而实现的突破性发明。产业界、学术界和政府之间的密切合作将增加成功案例的数量、速度和影响力，并突出强调创业的必要性。研讨会将涵盖引领新技术开发和商业化的基础研究。将审查从确定需求到基础研究，到开发新的有用技术，到保护发明，到获得资金，再到成为自给自足的企业的创业活动。我们的目标是提供基于科学突破的最新、实用的信息，这些突破导致了现实世界的经验。研讨会将从一个关于企业家精神的教程开始。讨论将集中在基础聚合物及相关科学、市场科学家和工程师面临的挑战和机遇，以促进对创业精神的理解。邀请对这一多样化和不断增长的领域的最新发展和进步感兴趣的科学家、工程师和技术人员提供口头和海报演示。

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.