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Sciencepreneurship

Science, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Economic Growth
2023 ᛫


Sciencepreneurship explores the symbiotic relationship between science, entrepreneurship and sustainable economic growth. It argues that like artists, writers and educators, scientists and entrepreneurs foster social progress and provide opportunities to advance sustainable and environmentally friendly economic development.

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Summary


In Sciencepreneurship, author Piero Formica explores the symbiotic relationship between science, entrepreneurship, and sustainable economic growth. He argues that like artists, writers and educators, scientists and entrepreneurs foster social progress and provide opportunities to advance sustainable and environmentally friendly economic development.


Innovative and future thinking entrepreneurs play a special role in the advancement of science and technology. They help guide scientific discoveries into our daily lives and reveal new opportunities for social innovation as they exploit the discoveries that scientists make of the natural world. Sciencepreneurship argues that forward-thinking scientific entrepreneurs are well placed to take advantage of recent breakthroughs ranging from genetic sequencing to smartphone applications—innovations that have entered our lives at breakneck speed.


Taking a transdisciplinary approach, which is one that integrates the natural, social and health sciences in a humanities context, Formica teaches readers, from academic researchers to engaged entrepreneurs, how to valorise science and entrepreneurship by designing a context of close, long-term interaction between the two.

Table of contents

  • Foreword. Sciencepreneurship: The Historical Perspectives; Alan Barrell

  • Chapter 1. Raising the curtain on science and scientific entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 2. Sciencepreneurship in a radically uncertain world
  • Chapter 3. The transition from continuity to discontinuity
  • Chapter 4. Connecting thought and action
  • Chapter 5. Scientists and literati: branches of the same tree
  • Chapter 6. Data science coexists with narratives
  • Chapter 7. An irreverent passion
  • Chapter 8. The road to sciencepreneurship
  • Chapter 9. Sciencepreneurship
  • Chapter 10. The uncertainty encircling science and the scientific enterprise
  • Chapter 11. Scientific entrepreneurship questions the science of possibility
  • Chapter 12. Sciencepreneurs for the well-being of mankind and nature
  • Chapter 13. The springtime of youth scientific entrepreneurship
  • Chapter 14. Learners: guardians and patrons of natural objects and all sentient beings
  • Chapter 15. Learners: Flowers blooming as agents of scientific entrepreneurship. Visionary investors turn to them

About the authors



Piero Formica is a Senior Research Fellow and Thought Leader with the Innovation Value Institute of Maynooth University in Ireland. He is the Director of the Summer School at the Contamination Lab of the University of Padua, where he is a professor at the Master MOIM-Open Innovation Management. He is also an Advisor of the Cambridge Learning Gateway.