Is the typical University ready to accept a Serial Entrepreneur as Research Professor?
Including soem advice for Industry Staff / Entrepreneurs willing or interested to enter the Academic World and for Universities dealing with these External Experts … or in other words what UNIVERSITIES SHOULD NOT DO!
And a little bit on Medical Technology Innovation!
Our Chair of Intelligent Catheters and Image Guided Therapies (INKA — www.inka-md.de) was started as a unique “project” at a typical public German university. The initial intention of this federal government financed professorship — in an otherwise state financed system — in the medical technology area was to provide a regional stimulus for interdisciplinary clinical innovation combined with entrepreneurial impulses through an initial 5 year tenure.
The search commission for the professor (the majority consists of professors, complemented by some research and administrative staff) decided — probably with some headaches — that the author of this document (at the time an end 40s former serial entrepreneur with only few academic credentials, but a successful track-record on creating meaningful and valuable medical…
