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- October 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Background Note
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Trends in China K-12
By: John J-H Kim, Haibo Zhao and Shu Lin
This note provides a brief survey of the major entrepreneurial and innovation trends in China’s K-12 education landscape, using trends in public policy as background, but focusing on opportunities available for the private market. The note first provides a brief...
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- 2014
- Chapter
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Place Making;
Industry Clusters;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 129–166. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- July 2017 (Revised July 2023)
- Course Overview Note
Public Entrepreneurship
By: Mitchell Weiss
This course is rooted in the belief that there is a large opportunity for creating value and solving large public problems if there are more inventors and builders inside government and more inventors and builders outside government, building for it. The course was...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
Public Sector;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Government Administration;
Business and Government Relations
Weiss, Mitchell. "Public Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 818-006, July 2017. (Revised July 2023.)
- 09 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- 07 Jul 2010
- News
Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award
- Awards
Best-Paper-Award "Innovation Management"
Winner of the 2013 Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Best Paper Award in "Innovation Management" with Curba Morris Lampert and Elena Novelli for "The Second Face of Appropriability: Generative Appropriability and Its Determinants."
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- Teaching Interest
Public Entrepreneurship
Public entrepreneurship is designed for future private entrepreneurs and public leaders who want to build new ventures operating in or selling into traditionally public domains.
The last few years have seen a wave of new public entrepreneurs start companies... View Details
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Public Entrepreneurship
- November 1984
- Background Note
Encouraging Innovation and Entrepreneurship
By: Richard R. Ellsworth and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Keywords:
Innovation Leadership
Ellsworth, Richard R., and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. "Encouraging Innovation and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-197, November 1984.
- Teaching Interest
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation. Social...
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- 2015
- Chapter
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy
By: Ramana Nanda, Ken Younge and Lee Fleming
We document three facts related to innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Energy;
Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Energy Industry
Nanda, Ramana, Ken Younge, and Lee Fleming. "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy." Chap. 7 in The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones, 199–232. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Web
Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Fuel Your Entrepreneurial Passion The HBS community is a place where students are encouraged and inspired to pursue their entrepreneurial passions. There is a vast ecosystem...
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- 2022
- Chapter
Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are...
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Keywords:
Economic Policy;
High-growth;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Economic Growth;
Policy;
United States
Mills, Karen G., and Annie Dang. "Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation." In The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, edited by Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship as Experimentation
By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro...
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Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Entrepreneurship as Experimentation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-005, July 2014.
- Research Summary
Creating ‘Smart’ Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Karen Mills
Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are...
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- Editorial
International Entrepreneurship at the Crossroads Between Innovation and Internationalization
By: Birgit Hagen, Stefano Denicolai and Antonella Zucchella
Keywords:
Entrepreneurs;
Innovation;
International Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Innovation and Invention
Hagen, Birgit, Stefano Denicolai, and Antonella Zucchella. "International Entrepreneurship at the Crossroads Between Innovation and Internationalization." Special Issue on Innovation and International Entrepreneurship edited by B. Hagen, S. Denicolai & A. Zucchella. Journal of International Entrepreneurship 12, no. 2 (June 2014): 111–114.
- 2022
- Book
The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
By: Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
We live in an era in which innovation and entrepreneurship seem ubiquitous, particularly in regions like Silicon Valley, Boston, and the Research Triangle Park. But many metrics of economic growth, such as productivity growth and business dynamism, have been at best...
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Keywords:
Productivity Growth;
Production Technologies;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
Economic Growth;
Competition;
Organizational Design;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
Andrews, Michael J., Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, eds. The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Creating ‘Smart’ Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The heterogeneity of America’s small businesses has led to some confusion and missteps in policy circles regarding the best strategies to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. We describe three policy areas: improving access to capital, delivering entrepreneurship...
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- Teaching Interest
Social Innovation Field Projects
The class will serve as the central clearing house for all independent projects relating to enterprises that are creating social value, with projects ranging from nonprofits to purpose driven for-profit businesses. This course provides students an opportunity to use...
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- 25 Sep 2017 - 27 Sep 2017
- Lecture
Three-Day Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa
By: Euvin Naidoo
Africa and the 4th Industrial Revolution: Innovation, leapfrogging and the promise and challenges of the Demographic Dividend
Optional pre-seminar viewing: 2017 MasterClass on Digital Innovation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Monday, September 25, ...
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Naidoo, Euvin. "Three-Day Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa." Lecture at the M-RCBG Senior Fellow-Led Study Group, Harvard Kennedy School, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Cambridge, MA, September 25–27, 2017.
- Teaching Interest
Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship
This course is designed for students who want to understand the central role that education plays in our economy and society and who may want to play an active role (e.g., as entrepreneur, board member, etc.) in shaping the future workforce, bringing about a more... View Details