2017-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2017 Volume 8: Surfaces and Interfaces(SISAM), Composite, Ceramic and Nanomaterials
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Braems I, Demange V, Dubois JM, Pech-Canul M, Patino CL, Fumio O |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 249 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-75-1 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Leather and Lace: Adventures of a Female Academic in Entrepreneur-land
Janna Maranas1;1PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, University Park, United States;
Type of Paper: General Plenary
Id Paper: 369
Topic: 46
Abstract:
At the last summit, our president, Dr. Florian Kongoli, charged us with the idea that some of us will become entrepreneurs within the next year. At the time, I was just about to begin this path myself. If you attend this talk, you will hear about my adventures over the past year, both positive and negative, with my start-up company, Unoia. You will hear how university administration both helped and hindered my progress and those of others. You will hear how I struggled to learn the concepts, legal issues, and "lingo" of start-up companies. You will hear about my struggles and successes [more struggles I'm afraid] with employees, including the vast differences between an employee and a graduate student. Indeed the preparation for this, and all of the above, is woefully inadequate in academia, or at least at Penn State and Princeton, my institutional locations. Finally, if you cant tell, I am a woman. I will tell you how this plays into my experience, which will require me to state some opinions on the subject, many of which may not be welcomed but that I firmly believe.