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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

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Therefore, entrepreneurs should not learn from large corporations’ best cases on (innovation) management, but learn entrepreneurial thinking in a more Schumpeterian way. Entrepreneurial thinking is described as having an entrepreneurial expert mindset (Krueger, 2007). Krueger, 2007). Entrepreneurial thinking.

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Typology for Innovative Organizations

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At the centre are the innovation brokers: consultancy firms, education professionals and knowledge brokers who do not directly work with innovation, but accelerate it (Chesbrough, 2007). Product innovation processes in small firms: Combining entrepreneurial effectuation and managerial causation. – Berends, H.,