Peter Griffin • Jul 20, 2016 •
When I visited universities and research institutes in Israel last year I was struck by two things – their entrepreneurial outlook and their eagerness to bring international entrepreneurial research collaborations to fruition. A focus in these areas – enabled by state, private and foreign investment, has paid off for Israel in the form of a research sector that creates a pipeline … Read More
Paul Walker • Jan 07, 2015 •
Recently Tim Worstall has been reminding us of a 2004 paper on Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement by William D. Nordhaus. The point of the paper is that entrepreneurs gain less than 3% of the social returns to their innovation. The paper's abstract reads:The present study examines the importance of Schumpeterian profits in … Read More
Robert Hickson • Apr 29, 2013 •
Is social entrepreneurship a liberal feel good sop, cynical stealth marketing by big corporations, a bit of both, or something else entirely? Is it a fad, or something more durable? Firstly, what is a social entrepreneur? Ashoka, the largest network of social entrepreneurs, defines them as … individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Jul 22, 2011 •
How do we generate improved economic growth for New Zealand? Sir Paul Callaghan argues that we must shift from low productivity industries, like wine and tourism, to new high productivity industries, such as advanced manufacturing. If we were to do this, we would no doubt lift our economic performance. So why don’t … Read More
Shaun Hendy • Nov 22, 2009 •
The MacDiarmid Institute held its annual meeting at the University of Auckland this year. This year’s theme was ’How to make money from your $cience’. Our students and post-docs participated, along with a number of students from Singapore. The science students were taught how to write a business plan, then put into teams together with a student from … Read More
Aaron Small • Nov 06, 2009 •
I frequently enjoy the blog posts of Chris Dixon, a web startup guru operating out of New York. One of his latest posts discussed Startup career paths, where he states that a career start in a startup is like an apprenticeship in becoming an entreprene... Read More