Format:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107019768
,
9781139530781
Content:
State-controlled economies such as China are building robust industries at stunning speed and siphoning off jobs from the West. This book addresses the crucial issue of state planning vs. free enterprise and examines specific problems surrounding entrepreneurship in the global economy through nine case histories of entrepreneurial companies
Note:
Cover -- Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Government: Boss, financial partner, regulator - Entrepreneurs in mixed economies -- HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS -- Early mercantilism -- Colbert launches modern French industry -- MODERN MERCANTILISM -- Industrializing Asia -- Mixed ownership, tight control -- Building domestic industries -- Follow the leader -- IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Working with the system -- SUMMING UP -- 2: Standing still is not an option: On promoting entrepreneurship and economic growth -- ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION -- Technology industries help to drive GDP growth -- Technology needs entrepreneurs -- FACTORS IN PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Silicon Valley: Model innovation cluster -- Innovation, business savvy, access to capital -- Building an innovation cluster -- Cluster success stories -- Cultural factors and entrepreneurship -- Immigrant power -- Looking for a new direction: Entrepreneurship in Japan -- Contract R& -- D for small and mid-sized companies: A key role for government support -- Sources of capital -- Government grants and bank funding -- Funding to help small businesses export their products -- Private funding -- Public markets and financial rewards for entrepreneurs -- GLOBAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Government restrictions on trading technology products -- Needed: Tight financial controls -- Pay a bribe, go to jail -- Collecting the bill -- MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY -- 3: Electronic innovation and the government: David Sarnoff creates the RCA empire -- INTRODUCTION -- ENTREPRENEUR IN WAITING -- Struggling immigrant stumbles on a career -- Entrepreneurial beginnings -- Thwarted entrepreneur -- THE US NAVY MANDATES A MONOPOLY -- Government involvement: Creating RCA
,
Ness goes global -- Off-shore challenges -- Cultural considerations -- GOING PUBLIC AND AFTER -- LOOKING BACK -- 8: Three startups in China: Entrepreneurs in a controlled economy -- OPPORTUNITY AND CONSTRAINTS -- Concerns for private equity -- Three companies, different approaches -- Telecommunications in China -- ASIAINFO: ENABLING CHINA'S INTERNET -- New location, new model -- Going public across the Pacific -- HARBOUR NETWORKS: AGAINST THE TIDE -- RDA MICROELECTRONICS: LOCAL ALLIANCES -- LOOKING BACK -- The human factor -- State issues -- No place to hide with inferior products -- Pick your competitors carefully -- State subsidies and tax preferences -- Patent filing in China and the legal system -- Exits -- In summary -- 9: Connecting the wireless networks of the world -- THE EVOLUTION OF WIRELESS DATA SERVICES -- Digital takes over -- Building out the network -- Mobile computing arrives -- Data traffic dilemma -- Market opportunities for intermediaries -- PRECURSOR TO AN IDEA -- AICENT GETS STARTED -- Building the network -- Gaining the trust of big carriers -- AICENT RIDES THE WAVE OF DATA SERVICES GROWTH -- Expanding beyond Asia -- MANAGING A GLOBAL BUSINESS -- LOOKING BACK -- 10: Building an economy: Government planning vs. entrepreneurial innovation -- THE HAZARDS OF TARGETING INDUSTRIES -- Government as entrepreneur -- Long-term planning, longer odds -- Targeting growth industries: A government goes it alone -- Targeting growth industries: Government teams with the private sector -- WHY LONG-RANGE TECHNOLOGY PLANNING IS SO CHANCY -- Looking back at visions of the future -- Non-commercial planning produces results -- INDUSTRIAL PLANNING VS. TECHNOLOGY FUNDING -- Non-commercial planning produces results -- Cold war R& -- D -- Building the digital domain -- Chips and lasers -- Government research and commercial innovation -- SUMMING UP
,
Select bibliography -- Index
,
The rise of IP pools -- THE BIRTH OF COMMERCIAL RADIO -- Finding an audience -- Ads and networks: New models for a developing business -- Network radio as a service -- Government involvement: Antitrust action -- Television: Intrapreneurial beginnings -- ADDING SIGHT TO SOUND -- Television decade -- Starting an industry -- Postwar television boom -- Adding color to black-and-white -- LOOKING BACK -- 4: Global problem, golden opportunity: Ron Stanton profits from market disruption -- TRADING IN REAL COMMODITIES -- Ammonia's importance in a modern economy -- Learning the peculiarities of international trading -- FROM OIL TO AMMONIA -- Leveraging change -- The cost of integrity -- INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE -- LOOKING BACK -- 5: Speeding voice and data traffic worldwide: Network microprocessors from RMI -- INFORMATION AUTOBAHN -- Routing bits and packets -- Microprocessors: Breaking the router bottleneck -- READY FOR INNOVATION -- PRODUCT LAUNCH -- Transition -- Weighing options -- RMI MERGES WITH NETLOGIC -- LOOKING BACK -- 6: A world leader emerges: SanDisk and flash memories -- MEMORY AND DISKS GET FLASHED -- Mechanical solutions -- Toward flash memory -- TOWARD SANDISK: WAFER SCALE INTEGRATION -- Manufacturing impacts competitiveness -- SANDISK PIONEERS FLASH MEMORY SYSTEMS -- From startup to the big leagues -- Success factors -- Patents and a clever licensing strategy -- Leadership in setting industry standards -- New portable consumer electronic devices hit the market -- SANDISK'S JOINT MANUFACTURING ENGINE -- Joint venture with Toshiba -- SanDisk builds a consumer brand -- LOOKING BACK -- 7: Implementing information technology across the globe -- DEMAND FOR IT SERVICES RESHAPES THE WORLD -- Israel: Technology company incubator -- HOW NESS TECHNOLOGIES BEGAN -- Putting the pieces together -- INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION -- All business is local
Additional Edition:
Print version Kressel, Henry Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2012 ISBN 9781107019768
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
FULL
((OIS Credentials Required))
