THE NEW AUDACIOUS TECHNOPRENEURS

Hung-Kei Tang and Khim-Teck Yeo
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Hung-Kei Tang: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Khim-Teck Yeo: School of Mechanical and Production Engineering Centre for Engineering and Technology Management Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), 1994, vol. 02, issue 03, 857-870

Abstract: This paper begins by introducing what other researchers have learnt on the subject of technology-based entrepreneurs and their start-ups. We coined the new term technopreneurs to denote this special type of entrepreneurs. The metaphor of an airplane taking off from a runway is used to describe the precarious state of a high-tech start-up company. Three new cases of technopreneurs, Sim Wong Hoo of Creative Technology, Robin Lau of Excel Machine Tools and Henry Yuen of Gemstar Development, whose businesses took off recently were investigated with the aim of finding the enabling forces for the successful take-off. Four enabling forces identified are the audacious technopreneurs, perceptive opportunities pursuers, core founding teams and enabling agents. Technopreneurs’ audacity are backed by their strong capabilities in relevant technologies.

Date: 1994
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