Donald Kuratko – författare

Learn the true process of a successful entrepreneur with ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORY, PROCESS, PRACTICE, 11e! Presenting the most current thinking in this explosive field, this renowned entrepreneurship text provides a practical, step-by-step approach that makes learning easy. It incorporates up-to-the-minute information about trending topics such as The Lean Startup methodology and design innovation. The accompanying MindTap® Learning Suite challenges you to apply what you've learned as you complete a unique set of activities designed to help you sharpen your entrepreneurial skills. You'll tackle activities that challenge you to experience the world of new venture creation or corporate innovation first hand. This book will be your guide to understanding the entrepreneurial challenges of tomorrow, and MindTap® will teach you the necessary skills to become a leader in the industry.

Learn about the entrepreneurial mindset and the true process of a successful entrepreneur with Kuratko's ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORY, PROCESS, PRACTICE, 12th EDITION! Presenting the most current thinking in this explosive field, this renowned entrepreneurship text provides a practical, step-by-step approach that makes learning easy. It incorporates up-to-the-minute information about trending topics such as design innovation, the entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial hustle, bootstrapping, and entrepreneurial coachability. The accompanying MindTap® Learning Suite challenges you to apply what you've learned as you complete a unique set of activities designed to help you sharpen your entrepreneurial skills. You'll tackle activities that challenge you to experience the world of new venture creation or corporate innovation firsthand. This book will be your guide to understanding the entrepreneurial challenges of tomorrow, and MindTap® will teach you the necessary skills to become a leader in the industry.

Develop your entrepreneurial capacity through imagination, creativity and design. Entrepreneurship has many meanings around the world, but there are overriding themes that unite them. In this text, you’ll learn how a survey of theoretical approaches helps us distinguish between the different kinds of entrepreneurs.  You’ll look at the most common characteristics exhibited by successful entrepreneurs and evaluate how entrepreneurs can have impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems. The practical, experiential parts of the text provide you with techniques for identifying and assessing opportunities and for creating that all-important value proposition.  Business Modelling, Lean Marketing, and twenty-first-century ways to raise funding are all included.

Effectiveness is the underlying theme for this introduction to disruptive innovation. The book tells the manager, or student, what they need to know in transforming the thinking in an organization to an innovative mindset in the twenty-first century.Corporate Innovation explains the four stages of the innovation process, and demonstrates how to improve skills in the innovation process, and unleash personal innovative abilities. This book also presents ways to assess the organization’s attitudes toward innovation, providing insights into how to diagnose creative and innovative performance problems in the organization. Beginning with an overview of concepts involved with an innovative organization today, this book explores the fundamental aspects of the individual, the organization and the implementation. An I-Organization is a combination of:I-Skills developed within individualsI-Design thinking functions needed to shape innovationI-Teams that emerge from the HR perspective of structuring the appropriate climateI-Solution needed to provide a foundation for implementing any innovative ideasEssential reading for students of corporate innovation, corporate ventures, corporate strategy, or human resources, this book also speaks to the specific needs of active managers charged with the expectation of enhancing the innovative prowess of their organization.Instructors’ outlines, lecture slides, and a test bank round out the ancillary online resources for this title.

Effectiveness is the underlying theme for this introduction to disruptive innovation. The book tells the manager, or student, what they need to know in transforming the thinking in an organization to an innovative mindset in the twenty-first century.Corporate Innovation explains the four stages of the innovation process, and demonstrates how to improve skills in the innovation process, and unleash personal innovative abilities. This book also presents ways to assess the organization’s attitudes toward innovation, providing insights into how to diagnose creative and innovative performance problems in the organization. Beginning with an overview of concepts involved with an innovative organization today, this book explores the fundamental aspects of the individual, the organization and the implementation. An I-Organization is a combination of:I-Skills developed within individualsI-Design thinking functions needed to shape innovationI-Teams that emerge from the HR perspective of structuring the appropriate climateI-Solution needed to provide a foundation for implementing any innovative ideasEssential reading for students of corporate innovation, corporate ventures, corporate strategy, or human resources, this book also speaks to the specific needs of active managers charged with the expectation of enhancing the innovative prowess of their organization.Instructors’ outlines, lecture slides, and a test bank round out the ancillary online resources for this title.