Browsing International Review of Entrepreneurship: Volume 05, 2007 by Title
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Beyond Emerson and the "Field of Dreams": Another Look at Innovation and Marketing
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)This note explores a new paradigm for thinking of innovation and innovating behavior, claiming that the Emerson/Field of Dreams paradigm so often used as justification for producing new highly-engineered products is a cause ... -
Entrepreneurship: A Survey of the Literature for Public Policy
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)This paper seeks to provide a roadmap to the entrepreneurship literature. Providing this roadmap is a challenge because entrepreneurship crosses the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines, incorporating not just ... -
Entrepreneurship: Unique Solutions for Unique Environments. Is it Possible to Achieve This with the Existing Paradigm?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)The paper explores the capacity of the entrepreneurship paradigm to produce unique solutions for unique environments. To achieve this goal the paper argues the need for a wider entrepreneurship paradigm than that which ... -
Graduate Entrepreneurship, ADHD and the Creation of Young Entrepreneurs: Is There a Need to Rethink?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)Around the world education institutions are being charged with the creation of more student entrepreneurs. One group of young people whom, like many successful entrepreneurs, do not normally succeed in the formal education ... -
Pitching for Finance for a Business Start-Up: a Case Study of IviewCameras
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)In September 2002 Pete Rankin is leaving his MBA programme to launch a new internet-based venture, IViewCameras. The price of wireless CCTV (closed-circuit TV) has fallen dramatically, creating a new market opportunity. ... -
Shareholder's Agreement or Disagreement: A Case Study of Cobalt Telephone Technologies Ltd (Parts I & II)
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)This two part case outlines how this new technology company was founded with minimal financial assets in 1997. Cobalt grew through developing an innovative market penetration strategy for its automated telephone response ... -
Social Entrepreneurship Education: Policy, Core Themes and Developmental Competencies
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)Examining the policy context for social enterprises in the UK, in this paper, we argue for a comprehensive educational approach to meet the needs of social entrepreneurs and other stakeholders associated with social ... -
Teaching Dispositional Optimism in the Entrepreneurial Classroom
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)This study demonstrates that dispositional optimism, a key trait found in successful entrepreneurs, can be effectively measured and enhanced in the entrepreneurial classroom. Undergraduate students with an expressed interest ... -
Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset: Lessons from Dead Poets Society
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)Film captures the complexity of issues, of possibilities and of interactions among diverse people. It can be very effective in the classroom because it draws students into the situation and provides them with an engaging ... -
The Innovation Factory - Start-up Catch 22's
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)The case uses the rise and growing pains of a consumer product based company from 2000 to 2003 to highlight the ever-constant struggles of developing new products and building a consumer products company - juxtaposed with ... -
The Spot Roller Rink
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)The Spot Roller Rink is a neglected recreational business that operates in a mature industry with seemingly little upside potential. The principle challenge is for students to serve as a business consultant to a small ...
