Finding Fertile Ground

Finding Fertile Ground
Author: Scott A. Shane
Publisher: Ft Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2008-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780768682090

If you're starting a business, the statistics prove that your best odds of success are in high technology industries: not just computing and telecom, but also biotech, electronics, manufacturing and materials, medical devices, robotics, and other knowledge-intensive fields. This is the first book to provide a methodology for finding those extraordinary opportunities. Shane shows how to identify market opportunities and competitor weaknesses, evaluate customer needs, manage risk and uncertainty, predict product adoption and diffusion, structure your organization, and protect intellectual property. You'll learn how to take into account crucial issues such as network externalities, and the emergence of dominant designs and technical standards. Unlike other books on entrepreneurship, this one offers solutions specifically targeted at high tech startups. Based on an MBA course taught at MIT, the University of Maryland, and Case Western Reserve University, it brings together insights that were previously scattered across multiple publications -- or never published at all.

Finding Fertile Ground

Finding Fertile Ground
Author: Scott Shane
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Provides a complete framework for targeting new businesses with the greatest growth potential like Google, Genentech or Tivo. bull; Explains why the highest rate of success for new businesses is in new technology applications and helps you identify your best market opportunity - and be the first to exploit it. bull; Offers specific solutions targeted at high growth, high-tech businesses from biotech to robotics. bull; " . . . a great, courageous effort. " - J. Engel, Centre for Entrepreneurship, U of Cal, , Berkeley

Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education

Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education
Author: Alain Fayolle
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1847206980

The Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education is well worth reading and both editions are excellent volumes for all of us involved and interested in the debate on how to bring entrepreneurship education forward and whether to create a distinctive domain of entrepreneurship studies. Domingo Ribeiro Soriano, Academy of Management Learning & Education . . . a commendable source of reference for entrepreneurship education researchers and practitioners alike, and would make a worthy addition to a library s collection. David Douglas, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research In this, the second volume of the Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, leading international scholars highlight the unique characteristics and rich variety of research in entrepreneurship education. They adopt several different perspectives, focusing on key issues and significant developments in the field, and highlighting emergent new insights. The 35 contributors span 11 countries and three continents, demonstrating not only the richness but also the complexity of the field in terms of culture, geography and institutional, ethical and political systems. The Handbook is intended to collectively assist entrepreneurship educators in developing new programmes and pedagogical approaches that take into account the richness and diversity of these multiple perspectives. Highlighting the unique characteristics of research in entrepreneurship education, this Handbook will be of great interest to entrepreneurship researchers, academics and students wishing to understand the unique notions of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial learning, which are often quite distinct from current practical views. The companion volume, Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, Volume 1: A General Perspective, showcases the nature and benefits of the new wave in entrepreneurship education emerging as a result of revised academic programmes developed to reflect new forms of entrepreneurship.

The IDEATE Method

The IDEATE Method
Author: Dan Cohen
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2019-12-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 154439327X

Generating new ideas that create substantial value is at the very core of entrepreneurship. The IDEATE Method is an ideation method empirically proven to help students identify problems, develop creative solutions, and select the most innovate entrepreneurial idea. Authors Daniel Cohen, Gregory Pool, and Heidi Neck emphasize the importance of deliberate practice and repetition as they guide students through each phase of the method: Identify, Discover, Enhance, Anticipate, Target, and Evaluate. Goal-directed activities and self-reflection questions help students develop their entrepreneurial mindset and skillset.

Generative Emergence

Generative Emergence
Author: Benyamin Lichtenstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 019993360X

How do organizations become created? Entrepreneurship scholars have debated this question for decades, but only recently have they been able to gain insights into the non-linear dynamics that lead to organizational emergence, through the use of the complexity sciences. Written for social science researchers, Generative Emergence summarizes these literatures, including the first comprehensive review of each of the 15 complexity science disciplines. In doing so, the book makes a bold proposal for a discipline of Emergence, and explores one of its proposed fields, namely Generative Emergence. The book begins with a detailed summary of its underlying science, dissipative structures theory, and rigorously maps the processes of order creation discovered by that science to identify a 5-phase model of order creation in entrepreneurial ventures. The second half of the book presents the findings from an experimental study that tested the model in four fast-growth ventures through a year-long, week-by-week longitudinal analysis of their processes, based on over 750 interviews and 1000 hours of on-site observation. These data, combined with reports from over a dozen other studies, confirm the dynamics of the 5-phase model in multiple contexts. By way of conclusion, the book explores how the model of Generative Emergence could be applied to enact emergence within and across organizations.

Market Opportunity Analysis

Market Opportunity Analysis
Author: Robert E. Stevens
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780789024190

This guide provides a step-by-step tool through the complicated process of determining the feasibility of marketing a new product or service. Combining market research, strategic management, consumer behaviour, and new venture creation, the text will help develop practical analytical skills.

Entrepreneurial Strategic Content

Entrepreneurial Strategic Content
Author: G. T. Lumpkin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848554230

Focuses on entrepreneurial strategic content. This title addresses the types of strategies that entrepreneurial companies use to effectively position themselves and gain competitive advantages. It identifies several strategic dilemmas and strategic choices that organizations face in their efforts to be more entrepreneurial.

The Power of Impossible Thinking

The Power of Impossible Thinking
Author: Colin Cook
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2006-01-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0132716089

50,000 copies sold, now in paperback... If you can think impossible thoughts, then you can do impossible things!! The power of change: create new thinking for new solutions! Includes a new introduction demonstrating the "power of impossible thinking," plus access to exclusive book summary and authors' interview at the book's companion Web site. The Power of Impossible Thinking is about getting better at making sense of what's going on around you so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not inaccurate or obsolete models of the world. This bestseller reveals how mental models stand between you and the truth and how to transform them into your biggest advantage! Learn how to develop new ways of seeing, when to change to a new model, how to swap amongst a portfolio of models, how to understand complex environments and how to do "mind R and D," improving models through constant experimentation. Jerry Wind and Colin Crook review why it's so hard to change mental models and offer practical strategies for dismantling "hardened missile silos". Finally they show how to access models quickly through intuition, and assess the effectiveness of any mental model. Purchasers of this book gain access to audio summaries on a companion web site, along with a new half-hour interview with the authors.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Business

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Business
Author: CJ Rhoads
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The final entry in this all-you-need-to-know series summarizes the best points in the previous 12 books, updates many of them, and integrates must-have knowledge into a unified, indispensable whole. Entrepreneurs need authors who will speak to them as equals, sharing the secrets they found as they built their own businesses. Crafted in that spirit, Praeger's Entrepreneur's Guide series provides practical, accessible, and authoritative advice on the major considerations in establishing and growing a new venture. Each book includes wisdom, tales from the trenches, worksheets, templates, sample documents, and resource lists to help entrepreneurs leverage their time and money. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Running a Business distills and shares the important points from each of the series' previous books, making the road to success smoother and more certain. This culmination of the professional development series takes the reader through all the important steps of starting and running an enterprise. It includes such essentials as writing the business plan, hiring the team, raising capital, managing technology, doing market research, and, of course, marketing the product. Once the business is up and running, the book can be consulted for advice on managing growth and inspiring and retaining employees, as well as for knowledge about handling crises and flourishing even during a recession.

The Second Cycle

The Second Cycle
Author: Lars Kolind
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0131736299

Although they appear successful, are businesses incubating seeds of disaster? In this book, Kolind helps readers uncover the earliest signs of trouble and reignite a powerful new growth cycle instead of accelerating towards failure.