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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Their Origins, Forms, and Suitability for New Ventures. 2. “It still holds true that human beings are most uniquely human when they turn obstacles into opportunities.” --Eric Hofer (paraphrase). Entrepreneurial Opportunity.

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Entrepreneurship

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  1. Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Their Origins, Forms, and Suitability for New Ventures 2

  2. “It still holds true that human beings are most uniquely human when they turn obstacles into opportunities.” --Eric Hofer (paraphrase)

  3. Entrepreneurial Opportunity • Situation in which a person can develop a new business idea that has potential to generate profit.

  4. Origins • Information that helps people recognize changes in the external world that create new opportunities.

  5. Truly valuable entrepreneurial opportunities come from an external change that either Makes it possible to do things that had not been done before. Makes it possible to do something in a more valuable way. Opportunities from Change

  6. Change Leads to Potential • New technology • Political and regulatory shifts • Social and demographic change Potential

  7. Technological Change • Makes it possible for people to do things in new and more productive ways • The most important source of entrepreneurial opportunity

  8. Political and Regulatory Change Makes it possible to develop business ideas to use resources in new ways that are either more productive, or that redistribute wealth from one person to another.

  9. Deregulation Regulations that support particular types of business activities Regulations that increase demand for particular activities or subsidize firms that undertake them Opportunities from Political and Regulatory Change

  10. Alters demand for products and services Makes it possible to generate solutions to customer needs that are more productive than those currently available Social and Demographic Change

  11. Entrepreneurs develop business ideas by Developing new products and services Tapping new markets Formulating new methods of production Identifying new raw materials Developing new ways of organizing processes Forms of Opportunity

  12. Industry differences influencing new firm success: Knowledge conditions Demand conditions Industry lifecycles Industry structure Success of New Firms

  13. New firms do better in: Industries that have greater R&D intensity Industries in which public sector organizations produce most of the new technology Industries in which small firms are the better innovators Knowledge Conditions

  14. New firms do better in: Larger markets Rapidly growing markets More heavily segmented markets Demand Conditions

  15. New firms do better When industries are young Before a dominant design emerges Industry Life Cycles

  16. New Firm Formation

  17. New firms perform more poorly in Capital-intensive industries Advertising-intensive industries Concentrated industries (versus fragmented industries) Industries composed of mostly large firms Industry Structure

  18. Advantages of Established Firms • The learning curve • Established reputation • Positive cash flow • Economies of scale • Complementary assets

  19. Competence destroying change Discrete products and services Ideas embedded in human capital Advantages for New Firms

  20. Large Companies Locked into old ways of thinking Must cannibalize existing business Hindered by established routines Must seek to satisfy existing customers Small Companies Can think in new ways No concerns with existing business Can form new routines easily No existing customer base to satisfy Competence Destroying Change

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