Venture Investing in Science
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Venture Investing in Science

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Over the past decade, software companies have increasingly monopolized the flow of venture capital, starving support for scientific research and its transformative discoveries. New medicines, cheaper and faster personal computers, and other life-changing developments all stem from investment in science. In the past, these funds led to steam engines, light bulbs, microprocessors, 3D printers, and even the Internet. In Venture Investing in Science, the venture capitalist Douglas W. Jamison and the investment author Stephen R. Waite directly link financial support to revolutionary advancements in physics, computers, chemistry, and biology and make a passionate case for continued investing in science to meet the global challenges of our time.

Clean air and water, cures for intractable diseases, greener public transportation, cheaper and faster communication technologies—these are some of the rich opportunities awaiting venture capital investment today. Jamison and Waite focus on how early-stage companies specializing in commercializing transformative technologies based on deep science have been shunned by venture capitalists, and how the development of such companies have been hampered by structural changes in capital markets and government regulation over the past decade. The authors argue that reinvigorating science-based technological innovation is crucial to reactivating the economic dynamism that lifts living standards and fuels prosperity over time.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780231544702
Topic
Negocios y empresa
Subtopic
Inversiones y valores

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents 
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Deep Science Disruption
  11. 2. The U.S. Deep Science Innovation Ecosystem
  12. 3. Deep Science and the Evolution of American Venture Capital
  13. 4. Diversity Breakdown in Venture Investing
  14. 5. Fostering Diversity in Venture Investing
  15. 6. Deep Science Venture Investing
  16. 7. Our Choice Ahead
  17. Appendix 1: The Case of D-Wave Systems
  18. Appendix 2: The Case of Nantero
  19. Notes
  20. Index