Medical Entrepreneurs

by Helen Mason

Overview

This inspiring series looks at innovative entrepreneurs in fields related to science and technology. These risk takers and problem solvers have created businesses that provide high-tech goods and services. Through case studies, highly engaging photographs, and well-crafted text, readers will learn about real entrepreneurs and their creations, and how they built their business ventures. A learner-centered research project in each title encourages readers to use the principles of entrepreneurship to come up with their own idea for a high-tech start-up. Innovations by entrepreneurs in the medical field have saved lives and changed many others for the better. With bright ideas such as stem-cell research and affordable prosthetics, medical entrepreneurs use science and technology to improve health care and make it widely available. Detailed case studies of successful entrepreneurs and a hands-on project help readers understand the principles of entrepreneurship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780778744344
Publisher:	Crabtree Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/28/2018
Series:	Science and Technology Start-Up Stars
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

Table of Contents

You Can Be an Entrepreneur! 4

Searching for a Cure 6

Research Start-Up Star Yehia Abugabal 8

Helping Athletes 10

Prevention Start-Up Star Phil Wagner 12

Bionic Prosthetics 14

Bionic Start-Up Star Easton LaChappella 16

Stem Cell Cures 18

Heart Start-Up Star Divya Nag 20

24-Hour Medicine 22

Baby Monitor Start-Up Stars Sona Shah Teresa Cauvel 24

Entrepreneurs Changing the World 26

Your Start-Up Story 28

Glossary 30

Learning More 31

Index 32