Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship Innovation

• Entrepreneurial Types

2
Six Orientations linked with INNOVATIVE
entrepreneurs

• INTRINSIC orientation
• Quest for the UNKNOWN
• Integrated Growth
• Capability Building
• People-Oriented Vision for Growth
• Persistence

3
8 Orientations common among all entrepreneurs

• Cautious growth through exiting products
• Competing through resourcefulness
• Exploiting others resources
• Opportunistic diversification
• Self-contained operations
• Response to immediate environment
• Spread risk to compatible partners
• Entry through imitation

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innovators' orientations
low-innovation 6 sub-types
high-innovation 7 sub-types

• inventor/tinkerer
• adventurer
• searcher/problem-solver
• gap-filler
• social visionary
• opportunity-grabber
• specialist pioneer.

• chance entrant
• agent-turned producer
• concession-grabber
• obsessed producer
• ancillary/imitator
• non-pioneer niche holder

Mathew J. Manimala (1996) Beyond Innovators and
Imitators A Taxonomy of Entrepreneurs.
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