| POLY | Monday, 11 September 2006 | ||
8:20 AM-12:10 PM San Francisco Marriott -- Salon A2, Oral | |||
Entrepreneurship in Polymers and Technology | |||
| Bridging the Gap from Science to Commercialization | |||
| Organizers: | Kathleen O. Havelka Dennis W. Smith Jr. Joseph M. DeSimone Rosemarie D. Wesson | ||
| Presiding: | Robert T. Graf | ||
| Organizer, Presiding: | Peter Zarras | ||
| 8:20 AM | 238 | Tutorial: Invention to business venture through the innovation- entrepreneurship nexus Sadiq Shah | |
| 9:00 AM | 239 | Building a chemical company: Are you out of your mind? Bernard Gordon III | |
| 9:30 AM | 240 | Role of defense funding agencies in promoting entrepreneurship and technology development J. Paul Armistead | |
| 10:00 AM | Intermission | ||
| 10:10 AM | 241 | Risk and innovation in science: From Einstein's photon to plastic solar cells Alan J. Heeger | |
| 10:40 AM | 242 | Polymers for the interface of photonics, nanotechnology and biotechnology: Opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurship Paras N. Prasad | |
| 11:10 AM | 243 | Polymeric nanomaterials: Concepts to commercial opportunities Gary E. Wnek | |
| 11:40 AM | 244 | Applications of marine DNA as intelligent polymers Naoya Ogata | |
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The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006