Innovation and entrepreneurship
Subtitle: practice and principles
By: Peter F. Drucker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Small business -- United States; New business enterprises -- United States; Entrepreneurship
First sentence: Since the mid-seventies, such slogans as “the no-growth economy,” the “deindustrialization of America,” and a long-term “Kondratieff stagnation of the economy” have become popular and are invoked as if axioms.
Description: Drucker explores the somewhat counterintuitive relation between innovation and entrepreneurship; in particular, what kind of innovations best serve entrepreneurial pursuits.  In addition to harnessing innovation, the entrepreneur must also keep it alive and help it grow by using appropriate management techniques.  Further arguments develop, briefly, why entrepreneurship is important to the larger scheme of things.
Notes: 116,651

Bibliography: p. 267-268.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: Introduction: The Entrepreneurial Economy
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: The Practice of Innovation
pagenum: 19; label: 2
title: Purposeful Innovation and the Seven Sources for Innovative Opportuinty
pagenum: 30; label: 3
title: Source: The Unexpected
pagenum: 37; label: 4
title: Source: Incongruities
pagenum: 57; label: 5
title: Source Process Need
pagenum: 69; label: 6
title: Source: Inducstry and Market Structures
pagenum: 76; label: 7
title: Source: Demographics
pagenum: 88; label: 8
title: Source: Changes in Perception
pagenum: 99; label: 9
title: Source: New Knowledge
pagenum: 107; label: 10
title: The Bright Idea
pagenum: 130; label: 11
title: Principles of Innovation
pagenum: 133; label: II
title: The Practice of Entrepreneurship
pagenum: 141; label: 12
title: Entrepreneurial Management
pagenum: 143; label: 13
title: The Entrepreneurial Business
pagenum: 147; label: 14
title: Entrepreneurship in the Service Instution
pagenum: 177; label: 15
title: The New Venture
pagenum: 188; label: III
title: Entrepreneurial Strategies
pagenum: 207; label: 16
title: "Fustest with the Mostest"
pagenum: 209; label: 17
title: "Hit Them Where They Ain't"
pagenum: 220; label: 18
title: Ecological Niches
pagenum: 233; label: 19
title: Changing Values and Characteristics
pagenum: 243; title: Conclusion: The Entrepreneurial Society
pagenum: 253; title: Suggested Readings
pagenum: 267; title: Index
pagenum: 269