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Role of Entrepreneurship Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development definition |
Key to economic performance - especially considering innovative change, playing an important structural and dynamic role in all economies. |
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Entrepreneurship Joseph Schumpeter |
New factor combinations that lead to new products, production methods or markets. It is about Creative Destruction - mutation process that revolutionizes the economic structure. Destroying in order to Create |
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Entrepreneur Dorf & Byers |
An entrepreneur: - identifies opportunities - mobilizes resources - identifies risks |
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Entrepreneurship Dorf & Byers |
Entrepreneurship is focused on the creation of a new enterprise that serves society and makes a positive change |
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Technology Entrepreneurship Dorf & Byers |
Creation of a new business enterprise that generates benefits (jobs, wealth, value, progress) by creating a unique new arrangement of resources including technology to meet the needs of customers and society. |
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Character Traits of Entrepreneurs |
- will to perform -risk tolerance -internal locus of control - the person believes that they can control their life and events affecting them |
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8 Skills of Entrepreneuship |
1. Initiate and Operate an Enterprise 2. Identify Opportunities 3. Operate within the context 4. Mobilize Resources 6. Manage knowledge and technology 7. Lead and Motivate a team 8. Be Innovative |
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Motivational for Entrepreneurs |
Be innovative Be independent/ autonomous have a role in driving change Potential Profit Self - Realization |
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Components of the system model |
Strategy and Leadership
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1. Business Opportunity |
When products are introduced and sold at a price higher than the cost of production |
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2. Business Oppotunity |
Favorable set of circumstances providing a good chance for a successful venture |
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Phases of Opportunity Process |
Opportunity - Economic Imbalance Recognition - Cognitive Act -Vision Evaluation - Challenge the vision - First validation -Market Solution -Organization |
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Differences between Static and Dynamic Paradigm |
Static gradual changes competitiveness based on efficiency and price routine transactions Dynamic innovative companies disequilibrium |
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Innovators Dilemma |
Best successful companies got their success by paying close attention to their customers' opinions. Best companies that failed did the same. Ford Example |
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7 Sources for Innovative Opportunity |
1. New Knowledge 4. The unexpected 5. Incongruities 7. Industry and Market Structure |
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7 Criteria for Opportunity Evaluation |
Capabilities Committment and Passion of the team Risks |
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Vision |
Vision articulates a picture of the future and defines the direction of a project. Statement of insight, ambition, intention and purpose. |
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Business Model |
Set of assumptions about how a firm will create value for its stakeholders |
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Business Model Patterns |
Business Model with similar characteristics or behaviors. |
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Startup Steve Blank |
Organisation formed to search for a profitable and scalable business model |
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Differences between Startup and Established Enterprise |
Startups: search for a business model unclear path and goals Established enterprises: clear path and goals |
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Startup Eric Ries |
A startup s a human institution designed to create a new product or service with conditions of extreme uncertainty |
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Lean Startup |
Method for systematically reduce the risk of projects with high uncertainty |
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4 Steps Involved in Lean Startup |
Plan project See plan as Hypothesis Systematically Reduce Risk Adapt plan |
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Minimal Viable Product |
version of a new product that allows the team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with least effort. |
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5 Effectuation Principles |
1. Bird in Hand - work with your means 2. Affordable loss 4. Patchwork Quilt - develop partnerships to reduce uncertainty in the future |
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Marketing |
Management process of identifying customers and communicate the value of the product or service to them with the purpose of selling it. Coordination of 4Ps |
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Value Proposition |
Value a company promises to offer to a customer. Value is the worth, importance or utility to the customer. |
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5 Dimensions of Value |
Access |
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3 Phases of Strategic Marketing Process |
Segmenting- divide the an heterogeneous market in several homogeneous ones Targeting - evaluate attractiveness and select a target group |
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Market Segmentation |
transform a heterogeneous market in several homogeneous ones according to their preferences |
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Different Methods of Pricing |
Cost based pricing Demand based pricing Competitors based pricing |
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Questions in Westendorp Survey |
Maximum Price Bargain Price |
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Radical Innovations |
High Uncertainty Disruption of the System |
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Critical Success Factor |
limited number of areas that will ensure competitiveness. |
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4 Categories - Innovation Context |
Entrepreneurial Team Organisation Technology |
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3 Categories - Process Context |
Opportunity Identification Product Development Commercialization |
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Product Platform |
Shared set of common design, engineering and production efforts for distinct products or services. It combines economies of scale and scope! |
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Eras and Phases which shape the change of a technological Paradigm |
Ferment Era - Fluent Phase
Incremental Change Era - Specific Phase |
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8 Success Factors for new ventures |
1. Founders' Market Experience 2. Founders' Industry Experience 5. Financial Resources 8. Firm age |
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Patent |
A patent is a exclusion right of limited duration granted by the state for the disclosure of an invention |
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3 Basic Requirements for a Patent |
Novelty- the product is not state of the art Inventive Activity
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State of the art |
It refers to the highest level of development as of a technology, device, technique or scientific field achieved at a particular time |
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6 Opportunities of a Patent |
1. Competitors cannot copy it 2. Check the competitors' development through the patents 3. Innovation can be announced 5. with systematically legal action monopolies can be created 6. innovation and stability can give a better reputation to a start- up |
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3 Threats of a Patent |
1.Expensive Application Process 3. it is hard to accuse another company for breaking the patent protection |
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Stages of the Startup Financing Cycle |
Valley of Death Early Stage Late Stage |
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4 Sources of Funding |
Loans Equity Capital |
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5 Motivations of Business Angels for investing in Startups |
Supporting Young Entrepreneurs Fun Contribute with Personal Experience Fruitful investment |
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6 Investment Criteria for Business Angels related to characteristics of the entrepreneur |
Self Confidence Ability to communicate |
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4 Investment Criteria for Business Angels related to the market and product |
Uniqueness and Value for the Customer Product Sales' Potential Product meets pledged properties |
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4 Investment Criteria for Business Angels related with financial factors |
Proportional of self financing from the entrepreneur Ability to reach breakeven without additional funding Low overheads |
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Structure of Venture Capital Business |
Investors (banks, private, insurances) give money to a fund with a certain interest rate. |
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5 TOP VC Industries in Europe |
1. energies and environment 3. life sciences 5. consumer services |
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Why startups should have a business plan? |
Every business or major project needs one. It is a road map to navigate through a project concrete environment. It requires honest thinking about the business concept. You'll get more questions than answers. |
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EXIST Program Objectives |
Establish a culture of entrepreneurship in university, research and management, Increase number of startups and create new jobs |
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Typical Structural of a Business Plan |
Cover Page Executive summary Business Description Industry Background Competitive analysis Marketing Plan Management team Financial plan Attachments and milestones |
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EXIST Start-up Grant Application |
Executive Summary Startup history Expertise Market Competition Operational Planning Firm Organization Opportunities and Risks |
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Top reasons why startups fail |
No market need Pricing/cost issues |
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Organization |
Social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment. |
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6 Principles of Effective Leadership |
1.Trust |
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5 Tasks of Effective Leadership |
1. Create Goals 5. Develop people |
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7 Tools of Effective Leadership |
1.Meetings 2. Reports 3. Performance Assessment 4. Job Design 6. Waste Disposal |