INNOVATION ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND - Historical Perspectives and Future Trends

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Rajiv R. Shah is a Clinical Professor with the Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas since 2008, and is also the Founder and Program Director for the Systems Engineering and Management (SEM) Program. At UT Dallas he teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Venturing, Technology and New Product Development, as well as Quantitative and Numerical Methods in Finance and Macroeconomics. He specialized in solid state and laser physics, and quantum electronics and non-linear optics, and prior to joining UT Dallas, he spent close to 30 years in industry working in areas that spanned - lasers, semiconductors, computers, and wireless, optical and internet communications. He co-founded and is a Managing Partner at Timmaron Capital Advisors, a firm that provides advisory services to CEOs, BoDs, and PE firms. He also founded The indusLotus Group and provided high-level consulting to private equity firms and others on Wall Street. He worked on a $50 B telecom deal in 2007. He has been an advisor to Cerberus Capital LP, Pioneer Natural Resources, Ericsson Inc., Commscope Inc., Goldman Sachs Vantage Marketplace LLC, Nomura Securities’ Private Equity Arm, a Council Member on the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), a number of other Private Equity and Hedge Funds, as well as three separate engagements with McKinsey & Co. He has also worked as an evaluator and mentor with the Texas Emerging Technology Fund and STARTech, reviewing business plans and mentoring founders and CEOs. Dr. Shah has served as CTO of Alcatel North America, and was VP of Research & Innovation and Network Strategy at Alcatel for four years. Prior to that he held senior management positions at MCI Worldcom over a five year period, and was involved in half-a-dozen corporate-level M&A due diligence activities. Before that he worked for Texas Instruments for seventeen years in various capacities, including R&D, manufacturing, business start-up, and business strategy and business development. He served for two years on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as Dr. Chaim Weizmann Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, specializing in Applied Physics, an Executive MBA from Southern Methodist University, and a B.Sc. in Physics, Mathematics and Statistics from Ferguson College, University of Pune, India, where he was the recipient of the National Science Talent Search Fellowship from the Government of India. Early in his career he published over fifty papers in peer reviewed journals, such as those of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and others, and had over twenty-five US and international patents issued to him. Dr. Zhijie Gao is an Associate Professor with the College of Economics and Management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, P. R. China, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas from 2012 to 2013. Her research areas mainly focus on analysis of entrepreneurial environment, cultivation of innovation ability, and development of agriculture-related industries. She participated in more than ten research projects, such as, “Research on Technological Innovation Capability of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Heilongjiang Province?, “Research on Technological Innovation Strategy of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Heilongjiang Province?, “On Biomass Energy Industrialization in Heilongjiang Province?, etc., and published over twenty articles and one monograph - On Potential and Countermeasures about Development of Biomass Energy Industry in Heilongjiang Province Based on Low-carbon Economy. She received her Ph. D. in General Management, from the College of Economy Management, Northeast Agriculture University, Harbin, P. R. China, an MS in Macroeconomics, from the Co...

List of contents

I. Innovation 1. What is Innovation? Why is innovation important? What Factors Affect Innovation? 2. History3. Economy 4. Culture5. Laws and rules (includes role of government and institutions, NIS) 6. Demographics 7. Education and Universities 8. Industry and Market Structures (Regional Clusters) 9. Opportunity Areas for InnovationII. Entrepreneurship 10. What is the Entrepreneurial Process? What factors Affect Entrepreneurship that Results in New Ventures?11. Personal Characteristics12. Social and Cultural Factors13. Entrepreneurial Training 14. External Environment (legal, political, institutional and labor markets) 15. Infrastructure 16. Capital Availability 17. Intrapreneurship - Large Companies III. The Economy 18. Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth 19. General Macroeconomic Framework20. A Model for Economic Growth with Innovation and Entrepreneurship 21. Entrepreneurship Indices and Relevant Macroeconomic Data IV. 22. Conclusions and Thoughts about the Future - US, China and India

Report

"How will emerging economies shape our coming life? Will the emerging economies of China and India converge towards a single model of innovative economy or will they preserve their own national characteristics? These issues are addressed in these essays which remind us that the future has already started." --Daniele Archibugi, Italian National Research Council
"This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understand the economic growth miracle in China and India. How is innovation activity carried out in these countries? What are the drivers of entrepreneurship in China and India, compared to the U.S.? For those who are interested in understanding economic growth in emerging countries, this book is an essential reading." --Andrea Filippetti, London School of Economics and Political Science
"This important new book provides a compelling analysis highlighting the underlying forces driving the United States, China and India -- innovation and entrepreneurship. The book shows how and why entrepreneurship and innovation matter so much even across such disparate economic contexts." --David Audretsch, University of Indiana

Product details

• Authors: Zhijie Gao, Zhijie (Northeast Agricultural University Gao, Gao Zhijie, Harini Mittal, Harini (Bronx Community College Mittal, Mittal Harini, Rajiv Shah, Rajiv (Jindal School of Management Shah, Rajiv Gao Shah, Shah Rajiv
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.12.2014, delayed
• EAN: 9780128018903
• ISBN: 978-0-12-801890-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Academic Press
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; USA, China, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, India, Business innovation, United States of America, USA, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups