Scratching the start-up itch

摘要

A well-worn path into the business world for researchers is to start companies in order to develop their own discoveries. When Lars Forsberg, a junior faculty member at Uppsala University in Sweden, found that loss of the Y chromosome in older men's blood cells was associated with an increased risk of cancer, he realized that he might have the basis for a business. He is relying heavily on two programmes in Sweden designed to help academic scientists to make the leap to industry: the Uppsala Innovation Centre (UIC)and Mentor4Research.