Entrepreneurial Profiles of Creative Destruction Courage, Imagination and Creativity in Action

by Carayannis, Elias G.; Vizas, Christopher; Venieris, Thanos; Stewart, McDonald; Provance, Michael; Sipp, Caroline M.

• ISBN13: 9780230002036
• ISBN10: 023000203X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Entrepreneurial Profiles is intended to help students and practitioners of entrepreneurship think about what it takes to create a significant business – not what it will take, because complexity, chaos and the fluidity of our changing environment dictate that the 'requirements' for any particular business can, at best, be known only in part, not just at inception, but at each stage as a company develops and evolves. Thus, the focus here is on what it may take to create a successful and significant business.

Author Biography

Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as well as co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center, (EURC) at the School of Business of the George Washington University, USA. Dr. Carayannis' teaching and research activities focus on the areas of strategic Government-University-Industry R and D partnerships, technology road-mapping, technology transfer and commercialization, international science and technology policy, technological entrepreneurship and regional economic development.

 
McDonald Stewart is Assistant Professor of Business at the George Washington University, USA.
 
Mike Provance is Chief Operating Officer and former Director at OneMind Health, Inc., USA. He is also a speaker, author and business advisor at Growth Kinetics LLC, USA.
 
Caroline Sipp is Adjunct Faculty and Doctoral Candidate, Program on the Management of Science, Technology and Innovation at the George Washington University's School of Business, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Definition of Terms; Elias G. Carayannis
2. Theory and Literature; Elias G. Carayannis and Don Stewart
3. Obsessed Maniacs and Clairvoyant Oracles: Empirically Validated Patterns of Entrepreneurial Behavior; Elias G. Carayannis and Don Stewart
4. Dystechnia: A Model of Technology Deficiency and Implications for Entrepreneurial Opportunity; Don Stewart and Elias G. Carayannis
5. Knowledge-Driven Creative Destruction: Strategic Knowledge Arbitrage and Serendipity (Skarse)™; Elias G. Carayannis
6. Real Technology Options and Venture Creation; Elias G. Carayannis and Caroline Sipp
7. From the Zoo to the Jungle and Back in a Second: the Profile of a Serial Entrepreneur in Action; Thanos Venieris