Know-who based entrepreneurship; from knowledge creation to business implemenation

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2007

Know-who based entrepreneurship; from knowledge creation to business implemenation.

Harryson, Sigvald J.

Edward Elgar Publishing

2006

410 pages

$130.00

Hardcover

HD69

Future success in the global economy requires going beyond rapidly outdating company know-how to networked know-who based entrepreneurship, according to Harryson (Growth Through Innovation Program (GTI), Baltic Business School, Sweden). With case examples drawn from real companies' experience, the author presents his brand of the new networked business models of global partnering. He discusses harnessing "open innovation," strategic intelligence, and applying the GTI process to transform innovation barriers to enablers, and tap the brains of other firms and academe. Human interaction is touted as superior to the Web-based kind for idea-creation and cross-fertilization. The volume, which builds on his PhD thesis on knowledge and innovation management (1999), includes flowcharts and cartoons reinforcing his points.

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