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Whether you come to this book as an entrepreneurship student, a corporate manager or a seasoned creator of new ventures, you already know that entrepreneurship is becoming the de facto engine of growth, innovation and that most delicious of personal freedoms - financial self-reliance. What you will discover is that there is a science to entrepreneurship - a common logic we have observed in expert entrepreneurs across industries, geographies and time. The underlying principles are the same ones that enabled Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century shape a pottery business into an enduring brand, helped Earl Bakken transform his college job into MedTronic, and allowed Mohammed Yunus to transform the lives of millions of women in Bangladesh. You will come face-to-face with some common misconceptions about entrepreneurship, as well as fears faced by every entrepreneur. You will find four core principles plus a fifth overarching view that expert entrepreneurs have learned in the process of creating new ventures, products and markets: start with your means; set affordable loss; leverage contingencies; form partnerships; and, create opportunities. When you start a new venture - for-profit or not, individually or within existing organizations - you are not only trying to make a good living, you are engaged in expanding the horizon of valuable new economic opportunities. This book is designed to help you do that start to finish.

And, in form and content, the book embodies the expert entrepreneurs' logic - bold, systematic, pragmatic, and at all times full of energy, mischief and fun. Rating: (not yet rated) Subjects. More like this. GOLD MEDAL WINNER in the 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards SHORTLISTED in the textbook category for the Chartered Management Institute's Book of the Year Prize, 2011-12 'Entrepreneurship is the most powerful tool we have for economic and social value creation and this book is destined to be recognized as the secret weapon all entrepreneurship educators have been waiting for! An accessible and comprehensive guide for all who aspire to both make and find opportunities. Len Schlesinger, President, Babson College, USA 'Both in form and content, this expansive volume captures the excitement of the entrepreneurial enterprise and the opportunities and challenges presented at each development cycle. Written by European and US academics, this volume is a great starting point to explore notions of innovation and entrepreneurial activity.

Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of undergraduate students; practitioners; general readers.' Schulman, CUNY Kingsborough Community College, CHOICE 'A pragmatic, comprehensive book on entrepreneurship that talks about the key aspects and principles for establishing and sustaining a successful business' - Businessworld 'A first-class entrepreneurship education tool' - Georgios A.

Panos, Journal of General Management 'This work has been absolutely instrumental in the development and continued growth of our company. We apply the 5 principles of effectuation everyday at Forgetful Gentleman.

If you've ever thought of being an entrepreneur, this book will literally change your life.' - Nathan Tan, Co-Founder, Forgetful Gentleman, Darden MBA '09 'In offering a foil to the start-up myth, the authors reach an important conclusion: entrepreneurial success is not innate - it can be taught. The lessons in this book teach burgeoning entrepreneurs how to abandon doomed business models with ease, how to turn promising ideas into profitable businesses, and how to excel in inevitable uncertainty. There is the entrepreneurial story we know: the garage office, the risk-junkie founders, the midnight stroke of genius, the millions in VC funding and then there's this book, which changes it all.' - Ashleigh Williams, Entrepreneur, MBA graduate, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University 'This is an inspiring and aspiring book based on practical experience, informed by different theories and schools of thought.

It is very accessible to a wide range of audiences, from students to intrapreneurs.' - George Lodorfos, Director of Undergraduate Programmes, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 'Paulo Coelho said 'We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless' - the passion can be a hobby, an idea, a desire to change the world or entrepreneurship itself. This book is all about getting you to a point where fear becomes powerless to stop you from acting on your passion.' - Jerry Nemorin, Founder of LendStreet 'An entrepreneurial blueprint for those who don't like blueprints. The authors have distilled the essence of entrepreneurship in a new and vital way.

Anyone who wants to know what matters to the global and local economies of tomorrow should read this book.' - Jim Zuffoletti, co-founder of OpenQ 'I consider this book to be the Bible for entrepreneurs. Sarasvathy has taken the mystery out of entrepreneurship and given us a set of principles to follow on our long and winding journey of creating new ventures.' - Brett Nicol, co-founder of Forgetful Gentleman 'An inspiring book! The principles of 'effectuation' puts in to words what I've been attempting to do in my company. The down to earth examples and the road maps encourage me to say 'yes, I can!' - Scott Weaver, CEO of CSD Nano, Willamette University MBA 'I knew that effectuation was a game changer as I witnessed my sixty MBA classmates fight and squirm to digest the material; this topic isn't for those wanting some gentle stretching - it's a majestic contrast to the typical MBA way of thinking.

As someone who already exhibited entrepreneurial tendency, effectuation provided an indispensable framework that organized and explained my previously chaotic yet intrinsic style of thinking.' - Ian Ayers, Co-Founder of Nova Global, Founder of Happy Rickshaw and CTO of LightWind Energy Read more.

Contents. Founding Effectuation is a principle introduced by Saras Sarasvathy in 2001. Since 1997 Sarasvathy conducted a among 45 expert entrepreneurs. Sarasvathy interviewed the entrepreneurs and let them solve cases in order to see how they think and where they start. It appeared that 89% of the expert entrepreneurs used effectuation more often than.

Causation is the opposite of effectuation. Where effectuation is used in situations of uncertainty, is used when the future is.

With causal reasoning, entrepreneurs will determine goals to achieve and look for the resources to do so. At the opposite with effectuation, entrepreneurs will determine goals according to the resources in their possession. Principles of effectuation There are five core principles that define Effectual Logic.

Innovation And Entrepreneurship Pdf

These are:. The Bird in Hand Principle. Entrepreneurs start with what they have. They will look at who they are, what they know and who they know. Their, and are examples of factors which are important in this stage.

Besides these examples, this is also the stage where entrepreneurs look at their 3Fs, better known as friends, family and fools. From this point, they will look at their abilities.

So an entrepreneur does not start with a given goal, but with the tools he or she has. The Affordable Loss Principle. An entrepreneur does not focus on possible, but on the possible losses and how they can minimize those losses. The Crazy Quilt Principle.

Entrepreneurs cooperate with parties they can trust. These parties can limit the affordable loss by giving pre. The Lemonade Principle. Entrepreneurs will look at how to leverage contingencies. Surprises are not necessarily seen as something bad, but as opportunities to find new markets. The Pilot-in-the-plane. In this stage, all the previous principles are put together.

The future cannot be predicted, but entrepreneurs can control some of the factors which determine the future. An example The most simple and clear example Saras Sarasvathy gives to describe effectual reasoning and to distinguish effectual reasoning from causation is about a chef cooking a meal. By using causation, the client chooses a menu in advance and the chef prepares this menu by looking for the right ingredients and following the recipes to make the dishes. In the effectual process, the approach would be rather different. The client would not ask for a specific menu, but he asks the chef to make something with the ingredients available. The chef chooses one of the many different meals he is able to make with the available ingredients.

The most important difference between causal reasoning and effectuation is therefore that an entrepreneur using causation has a given goal and searches for means to reach his goal. If the entrepreneur uses effectuation instead, he will start with the means he has and from this point he looks at possible goals. See also References.

^ Society for Effectual Action (2012). Batten Institute, Darden School of Business. Retrieved 2014-01-26. ^ Saras Sarasvathy; et al.

'Effectual Entrepreneurial Expertise: Existence and Bounds'. PennState: 46. Saras Sarasvathy (2001). Harvard Business Review: 9. Retrieved 2014-01-26. Further reading. Randerson, Kathleen; Fayolle, Alain (2013).

'Business emergence'. In Carayannis, Elias G. New York: Springer. Retrieved 9 November 2014.

Sarasvathy, Saras D. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Dos Santos, Ricardo.