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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.





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





Entrepreneur


Dorf & Byers

An entrepreneur:


- identifies opportunities


- mobilizes resources
- execute on their vision


- identifies risks

Entrepreneurship


Dorf & Byers

Entrepreneurship is focused on the creation of a new enterprise that serves society and makes a positive change

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.

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

8 Skills of Entrepreneuship

1. Initiate and Operate an Enterprise


2. Identify Opportunities


3. Operate within the context


4. Mobilize Resources
5. Assess and Mitigate risks


6. Manage knowledge and technology


7. Lead and Motivate a team


8. Be Innovative

Motivational for Entrepreneurs
(5)

Be innovative


Be independent/ autonomous


have a role in driving change


Potential Profit


Self - Realization

Components of the system model

Strategy and Leadership
Core competencies
Intellectual Property


Value creation - Value Proposition - Value delivery



Systems and Structures
Financials
Processes

1. Business Opportunity

When products are introduced and sold at a price higher than the cost of production

2. Business Oppotunity

Favorable set of circumstances providing a good chance for a successful venture

Phases of Opportunity Process

Opportunity


- Economic Imbalance
- Information Asymmetry


Recognition


- Cognitive Act


-Vision


Evaluation


- Challenge the vision


- First validation
Exploitation


-Market Solution


-Organization

Differences between Static and Dynamic Paradigm

Static


gradual changes


competitiveness based on efficiency and price


routine transactions


Dynamic


innovative companies
old established companies declining
disruption


disequilibrium

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

7 Sources for Innovative Opportunity
Peter Drucker

1. New Knowledge
2. New Need
3. Changes in perception


4. The unexpected


5. Incongruities
6. Demographics


7. Industry and Market Structure

7 Criteria for Opportunity Evaluation

Capabilities
Novelty


Committment and Passion of the team
Return
Uniqueness and Value for Customers
Resources


Risks

Vision

Vision articulates a picture of the future and defines the direction of a project.




Statement of insight, ambition, intention and purpose.

Business Model

Set of assumptions about how a firm will create value for its stakeholders

Business Model Patterns

Business Model with similar characteristics or behaviors.

Startup


Steve Blank

Organisation formed to search for a profitable and scalable business model

Differences between Startup and Established Enterprise

Startups:


search for a business model


unclear path and goals


Established enterprises:
defined business model


clear path and goals

Startup


Eric Ries

A startup s a human institution designed to create a new product or service with conditions of extreme uncertainty

Lean Startup

Method for systematically reduce the risk of projects with high uncertainty

4 Steps Involved in Lean Startup

Plan project


See plan as Hypothesis


Systematically Reduce Risk


Adapt plan



Minimal Viable Product
MVP

version of a new product that allows the team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with least effort.

5 Effectuation Principles

1. Bird in Hand - work with your means


2. Affordable loss
3. Lemonade - leverage contingency


4. Patchwork Quilt - develop partnerships to reduce uncertainty in the future
5. Pilot in the Plane - get control

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
Product Price
Promotion Place

Value Proposition

Value a company promises to offer to a customer.




Value is the worth, importance or utility to the customer.

5 Dimensions of Value

Access
Product
Price
Experience
Service

3 Phases of Strategic Marketing Process

Segmenting- divide the an heterogeneous market in several homogeneous ones


Targeting - evaluate attractiveness and select a target group
Positioning- implementing the targeting

Market Segmentation

transform a heterogeneous market in several homogeneous ones according to their preferences

Different Methods of Pricing

Cost based pricing


Demand based pricing


Competitors based pricing



Questions in Westendorp Survey

Maximum Price
Minimum Price
Getting expensive Price


Bargain Price




Radical Innovations

High Uncertainty
High Risks
Potential High Return
Novelty


Disruption of the System

Critical Success Factor

limited number of areas that will ensure competitiveness.

an element that is necessary for a company to achieve its mission and to ensure success

4 Categories - Innovation Context

Entrepreneurial Team
Targeted market


Organisation


Technology

3 Categories - Process Context

Opportunity Identification


Product Development


Commercialization

Product Platform

Shared set of common design, engineering and production efforts for distinct products or services. It combines economies of scale and scope!

Eras and Phases which shape the change of a technological Paradigm

Ferment Era - Fluent Phase



technology discontinuity selection of a dominant design




Incremental Change Era - Specific Phase

8 Success Factors for new ventures
Michael Song

1. Founders' Market Experience


2. Founders' Industry Experience
3. Supply Chain Integration
4. Existence of patent protection


5. Financial Resources
6. Market Scope
7. Size of the funding team


8. Firm age

Patent

A patent is a exclusion right of limited duration granted by the state for the disclosure of an invention

3 Basic Requirements for a Patent

Novelty- the product is not state of the art




Inventive Activity



Application - the product has to have a industrial, agricultural or commercial application.

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

6 Opportunities of a Patent

1. Competitors cannot copy it


2. Check the competitors' development through the patents


3. Innovation can be announced
4. collaboration with large corporations


5. with systematically legal action monopolies can be created


6. innovation and stability can give a better reputation to a start- up

3 Threats of a Patent

1.Expensive Application Process
2. Disclosure of the invention (in 18 months it will be possible to copy)


3. it is hard to accuse another company for breaking the patent protection



Stages of the Startup Financing Cycle

Valley of Death
Breakeven


Early Stage


Late Stage

4 Sources of Funding

Loans
Mezzanine
Grants


Equity Capital

5 Motivations of Business Angels for investing in Startups

Supporting Young Entrepreneurs


Fun


Contribute with Personal Experience


Fruitful investment
Play a role in the Entrepreneurial Process

6 Investment Criteria for Business Angels


related to characteristics of the entrepreneur

Self Confidence
Motivation
Frustration Tolerance
Trustworthiness
Enthusiasm


Ability to communicate

4 Investment Criteria for Business Angels


related to the market and product

Uniqueness and Value for the Customer


Product Sales' Potential
Potential growth of the market


Product meets pledged properties

4 Investment Criteria for Business Angels


related with financial factors

Proportional of self financing from the entrepreneur
Anticipated Financial Return


Ability to reach breakeven without additional funding


Low overheads

Structure of Venture Capital Business

Investors (banks, private, insurances) give money to a fund with a certain interest rate.

This fund, managed by a VC Company allows the investment on a venture portfolio.

5 TOP VC Industries in Europe

1. energies and environment
2. communication


3. life sciences
4. computer and consumer electronics


5. consumer services

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.

EXIST Program


Objectives

Establish a culture of entrepreneurship in university, research and management,
Translate findings of academic research into economic value
Promote potential for business ideas and entrepreneurs.


Increase number of startups and create new jobs

Typical Structural of a Business Plan

Cover Page


Executive summary


Business Description
Business Environment Analysis


Industry Background


Competitive analysis
Market Analysis


Marketing Plan


Management team


Financial plan


Attachments and milestones

EXIST Start-up Grant Application

Executive Summary
Business Idea


Startup history


Expertise
Innovation Project Planning


Market Competition
Market Situation
USP and Value proposition
Competitors
Market Entry


Operational Planning
Financial Planning


Firm Organization


Opportunities and Risks

Top reasons why startups fail

No market need
Run out of cash
Not the right team


Pricing/cost issues
Poor Product
Lack of Business Model



Organization

Social entity that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.
implementations for the division of labor
hierarchical structure

6 Principles of Effective Leadership

1.Trust
2. Result Orientation
3. Contributing to the whole
4. Focus on few things
5. Use strengths
6. Think positive

5 Tasks of Effective Leadership

1. Create Goals
2. Organize
3. Decide
4. Monitor


5. Develop people

7 Tools of Effective Leadership

1.Meetings


2. Reports


3. Performance Assessment


4. Job Design
5. Budget


6. Waste Disposal
7. Personal Working methodology