1st Edition

Entrepreneurial Opportunity The Right Place at the Right Time

By Greg Clydesdale Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

  Successfully starting a new business venture depends upon more than having a brilliant idea, getting funding, and getting the product or service to market.  Entrepreneurs must also learn to read the market and understand the environments in which they must operate.  Entrepreneurial Opportunity places the emphasis on reading and making the most of things that may be beyond... Read more

1. If you’re such a genius, why aren’t you rich?  2. Creativity and opportunity recognition  3. Environmental change and windows of opportunity  4. Technology, new products and pioneers  5. Market evolution: Niches and opportunity  6. Trajectories and emerging niches  7. Industrial development: Linkages and opportunities  8. Environments of constraint and abundance  9. It’s not always fair out there  10. Leaping, Failing, Learning – Success!  11. Government policy and new business development  12. What type of entrepreneur should I be?

Biography

Greg Clydesdale lectures in the Department of Management and International Business at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand.