02893nam a2200385 a 4500 eep9781848449312 DLC 20100120151051.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 090123s2009 enka ob 001 0 eng d 2009921533 9781848449312 (e-book) UKM UKM YDXCP BWKUK BTCTA BWK CDX DLC e------ n-us--- HC79.T4 C38 2009 338.064 22 Cases in technological entrepreneurship [electronic resource] : converting ideas into value / edited by Claudio Petti. Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2009. 1 online resource (xxii, 156 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Entrepreneurship, innovative enterprise and economic development / William Lazonick -- 2. The role of public policies in innovation processes / Fabrizio Cobis -- 3. Finding, financing and growing technology-based innovations : a perspective on MIT / David Verrill -- 4. The role of angel funds in early stage start-ups / Maurice Olivier -- 5. The locus of innovation in small and medium-sized firms : the importance of social capital and networking in innovative entrepreneurship / Willem Hulsink, Tom Elfring and Wouter Stam -- 6. Building a business on open source software / Anthony I. Wasserman -- 7. Using innovation, research, and finance to build a company with a multi-option strategy / Roberto Siagri, Andrea Barbaro and Nicola Buttolo -- 8. Technology entrepreneurship education : the Intel-UC Berkeley Global Entrepreneurship Education Initiative / Mark Harris. The book examines from different perspectives a number of fundamental issues in the process of transforming technological innovations into profits. Key cases and field insights from distinguished contributors show the role and the practices of government bodies, universities, private investors and companies within the transformation of new ideas into value, in start-ups as well as in incumbents. The book takes a systemic view of technological entrepreneurship, positioning the topic at the interface between entrepreneurial and strategic perspectives within the emergent strategic entrepreneurship field. Entrepreneurship. Technological innovations Economic aspects. Technological innovations Europe. Technological innovations United States. Entrepreneurship Europe. Entrepreneurship United States. Electronic books. lcsh Petti, Claudio. Edward Elgar Publishing. 184844186X (hbk.) 9781848441866 (hardback) https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781848441866.xml 2010_and_before_Business 2010_and_before Business