Effect of EU Crisis on Near-term and Long Term Entrepreneurship Eilif Trondsen : The bad news keep coming from Europe as Greece teeters on the edge of disaster in the euro zone and threatens contagion effect across Europe and...

Regeringen vil afskaffe iværksætterskatten, og regningen på 390 millioner kroner skal betales af bankerne.

How do you define innovation? The company 3M, one of the first organizations to fully embrace innovation as the essence of its corporate brand, defines it as "new ideas - plus action or implementation - which result in an improvemen

Facebook may be looking to buy browser maker Opera Software, according to a new report. A source told Pocket-lint that the social network wants to expand into the browser space and is looking to acquire Opera to do so.

Evgenia Eliseeva Harvard’s Noam Wasserman. Noam Wasserman, a Harvard Business School professor, wants you to survive. For more than a decade, he has been hunting for reasons that explain why start-ups and their founders...

Opera would cost Facebook over $1 billion: analysts By Joachim Dagenborg and Balazs Koranyi OSLO (Reuters) - Opera Software would cost Facebook over $1 billion as competition from Google and others could push up the price tag,...

After the JOBS Act legalized crowdfunding-based investments in new businesses, the startup community set its sights on a new legislative goal: granting visas to foreigners who are pursuing a high-tech degree or building a...

On Learning Platforms and Ecosystems Eilif Trondsen : This blog post is based on work and thinking I have done over the last six months or so about the emergence of (digital) learning platforms, how these may evolve, and what...

Google believes that mobile represents a sociological shift in how users relate to both the digital and physical world. Businesses that understand this will win. Advertisers are no longer asking "Why should I invest in mobile?"...

Beyond Social Media Investing: Accelerating Academic Research Towards Commercialization Eilif Trondsen : This blog post builds on a recent article by Chris O’Brien (in San Jose Mercury News) that addressed two related issues:...

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A colleague of mine, Brad George, and I are working on an academic paper related to entrepreneurship education. Here’s the premise. Those that need entrepreneurship education are nascent entrepreneurs—those thinking about starting a business...

Many startups seem to be powered solely by excitement over the new business (occasionally mixed with some Red Bull and Starbucks). Startup founders typically devote every waking moment to their companies, and probably even...

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One of the hottest startup sectors right now is education. 2Tor, for example, has raised $90 million in venture capital to make credible online degrees for universities. Knewton has raised $54 million to make customized content...

This is guest post by Julia Szopa , program director at the blackbox.vc incubator in Silicon Valley which specialises in moving European startups into the US. It is not uncommon for European entrepreneurs to come to the Silicon...

By Antti Vilpponen, May 24, 2012, Leave a Comment ZTE is one of the world's largest device manufacturers and service providers to the mobile industry. In Q4 of 2011, ZTE became the fourth largest handset maker with 4,9% global...