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This book details what it takes for an entrepreneur to be successful in today’s high risk, high tech industry. Tips on how to get started, the potential pitfalls to avoid and many more, are offered in this book. The first three chapters of the book covered the greatest boom and bust story in history, a story of greed, hope and fear. These chapters provide information on what went wrong and why and cover some of the mistakes made by established technopreneurs … More >>

Technopreneurship: The Successful Entrepreneur in the New Economy

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In a new economic environment, where should executives look for the next wave of profitable growth? How can executives make the right choices for their businesses, even when faced with a new and different set of opportunities and challenges today? Achieving sustained and profitable growth is extremely difficult in any economy. But as the economy recovers and returns to a path of growth, building from a strong and differentiated core is even more critical now than ev… More >>

Profit from the Core: A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times

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Many warn that the next stage of globalization–the offshoring of research and development to China and India–threatens the foundations of Western prosperity. But in The Venturesome Economy, acclaimed business and economics scholar Amar Bhidé shows how wrong the doomsayers are. Using extensive field studies on venture-capital-backed businesses to examine how technology really advances in modern economies, Bhidé explains why know-how developed abroad enhances–not… More >>

The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World

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This panel from the 2008 Milken Institute Global Conference examines the role of high-tech industries in spurring economic growth. What factors shaped the most successful technology centers? How can regions and nations build and sustain knowledge-based economies? What roles can universities, research institutes, government labs, venture capital and private R&D operations play in creating special high-tech urban districts or suburban industrial parks? What is the best way to… More >>

2008 Global Conference: Tech Centers of North America: How to Build and Sustain a Knowledge Economy

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According to the Center for Women’s Business Research, in 2006 nearly 10.4 million businesses were owned by women. This growing segment of the economy includes many women who also have a family to manage. These high-achieving women are constantly overthinking, second-guessing, and reevaluating themselves and their lives. They enjoy having their own businesses, but they wonder if it is in their best interest to stay home and raise their families, work as an employee,… More >>

The Entrepreneurial Mom: Managing for Success in Your Home and Your Business

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This book focuses on nature of entrepreneurship through investigation of historical texts, theories and publications. It demonstrates how history has led to changes in Poland?s development with emphasis on entrepreneurship. A series of models identify essential elements/factors within a transitional economy. It suggests economic, cultural and societal histories should be known to enable governments and individuals to understand their origins. It advocates t… More >>

Entrepreneurial Development in the Economy of Poland: Entrepreneurial Developments

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Becoming a global company once meant penetrating markets around the world. But the demands of the knowledge economy are turning this strategy on its head. Today, the challenge is to innovate by learning from the world . This book provides a blueprint for companies ready to embrace this new globalization challenge. In From Global to Metanational , international business and strategy experts Yves Doz, José Santos, and Peter Williamson introduce a radically… More >>

From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy

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Little is known about women in Ghana?s contribution to the socio-economic wellbeing of their families and communities through their entrepreneurial activities. The focus of this book is generally on female entrepreneurship in a developing country. It describes the nature and construction of entrepreneurship by women in Ghana. This being one of the first studies on women entrepreneurs in Ghana, a multidisciplinary approach was adopted to explore a myriad of … More >>

Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises in Ghana: A Study of Women Entrepreneurs in a Developing Economy

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The key message of this book is that heterogeneity should be seen as an intrinsic and indispensable element of knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives from evolutionary economics and innovation system studies, and relate this approach to existing theories in a broad range of fields. This book postulates that one approach to such a re-conceptualization is what we call the ‘Mode 3′ sys… More >>

Diversity in the Knowledge Economy and Society: Heterogeneity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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There exist today a multitude of publications, journals, and articles, giving advice on how to start your own business or operate a successful enterprise. This journal is not one of them. The focus or mission statement of this publication is to identify and determine, through research, the elements that constitute: establishing, maintaining and developing a successful business operation, in such a depressed economic situation. To succeed we must be diligent to the… More >>

Business Development and Entrepreneurship in a Stressful Economy