Entrepreneurial Profiles of Creative Destruction: Courage, Imagination and Creativity in Action [Paperback]

Entrepreneurial Profiles is intended to help students and practitioners of entrepreneurship think about what it takes to create a significant business, with focus on what it may take to create a successful and significant business.1. Introduction and Definition of Terms; Elias G. Carayannis 2. Theory and Literature; Elias G. Carayannis and Don Stewart 3. Obsessed Maniacs and Clairvoyant Oracles: Empirically Validated Patterns of Entrepreneurial Behavior; Elias G. Carayannis and Don Stewart 4. Dystechnia: A Model of Technology Deficiency and Implications for Entrepreneurial Opportunity; Don Stewart and Elias G. Carayannis 5. Knowledge-Driven Creative Destruction: Strategic Knowledge Arbitrage and Serendipity (Skarse) ; Elias G. Carayannis 6. Real Technology Options and Venture Creation; Elias G. Carayannis and Caroline Sipp 7. From the Zoo to the Jungle and Back in a Second: the Profile of a Serial Entrepreneur in Action; Thanos VenierisAuthor Elias G. Carayannis: Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI); and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center (EURC) at the School of Business of the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA. He can be reached at caraye@gwu.edu.