TY - BOOK AU - Trott, Paul AU - Hartmann, Dap AU - van der Duin, Patrick AU - Scholten, Victor AU - Ortt, Roland TI - Managing technology entrepreneurship and innovation / SN - 9780415677226 AV - GC HC 79.T4 .T76 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Blackwell KW - INNOVATIVE COMPANIES KW - ENTREPRENEURS (POLITICAL ECONOMY) KW - START-UP MANAGEMENT N1 - Part I : Creating the venture -- 1. How entrepreneurship and technological innovation are bound together - 2. Visioning the future for a new venture -- 3. Inventive problem-solving and brainstorming -- 4. The Opportunity and the entrepreneur -- Part II : Developing the venture -- 5. Developing a business model -- 6. Innovation systems : embedding the entrepreneur -- 7. Academic spin-outs -- 8. Lead users for market entry -- Part III : Managing the entrepreneurial firm -- 9. Niche strategies -- 10. Entrepreneurship in context -- 11. Developing new products in the new venture -- 12. Expectations of entrepreneurs and patterns of growth N2 - The purpose of this book is to provide students with a text that can help them improve their entrepreneurial skills and enable them to be more successful at turning their technology into a business venture ER -