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Summary
Summary
High-tech businesses form a crucial part of entrepreneurial activity - in some ways presenting very typical examples of entrepreneurship, yet in some ways representing quite different challenges. The uncertainty in innovation and advanced technology makes it difficult to use conventional economic planning models, and also means that the management skills used in this area must be more responsive to issues of risk, uncertainty and evaluation than in conventional business opportunities.
Specifically focusing on the mix of theory and practice needed to accurately inform students, the key topics covered include:
uncertainty and innovation entrepreneurial finance marketing technological innovations high-tech incubation management.Including case studies to give practical insights into genuine business examples, this comprehensive book has a distinctly 'real-world' focus throughout. Edited by a multi-national team, it draws together leading writers and researchers from across Europe, making it a must-read for all those involved in advanced entrepreneurship with specific interests in high-tech start-ups.
Author Notes
Michel Bernasconi is Professor in Business Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Director of the High-tech Entrepreneurship Center at the CERAM Sophia Antipolis, Frrance.
Simon Harris is Reader in International Strategic Management at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, UK.
Mette Moensted is Professor in Knowledge Management in the Department of Management, Politics & Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| Contributors | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiil |
| 1 High-tech entrepreneurship: managing innovation in a world of variety and uncertainty | p. 1 |
| Part I Uncertainty and Innovation in Entrepreneurship | p. 11 |
| 2 High-tech, uncertainty and innovation: the opportunity for high-tech entrepreneurship | p. 15 |
| 3 For high-tech small is beautiful: why small firms can handle complexity better | p. 33 |
| 4 Engineers as high-tech entrepreneurs: French engineers' paths to entrepreneurship | p. 50 |
| 5 Collective learning processes in high-tech firms: enablers and barriers to the innovation process | p. 69 |
| Part II Different Entrepreneurial Ways of Facing Uncertainty | p. 87 |
| 6 High-tech clusters: network richness in Sophia Antipolis and Silicon Valley | p. 93 |
| 7 Network relationships in different cultures: high-tech globalization meets local cultures | p. 112 |
| 8 Technology business incubation management: lessons of experience | p. 131 |
| 9 Strategy development processes: the importance of considering integration and timing | p. 144 |
| 10 University spin-out firms: patterns of development based on expertise | p. 158 |
| 11 Creation processes as evolving projects: high-tech firms as emerging systems | p. 174 |
| Part III Managing Innovative High-Tech Firms | p. 187 |
| 12 Marketing technological innovations: the challenges of creating markets | p. 189 |
| 13 Creating competitive intelligence: competing technologies come from anywhere | p. 207 |
| 14 Evaluating technology development projects: a multiplexity of controllability and uncontrollability | p. 225 |
| 15 Networking for innovation: managing through networks | p. 242 |
| References | p. 262 |
| Index | p. 286 |
