The Knowledge Entrepreneur: How Your Business Can Create, Manage and Profit from Intellectual Capital

Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy: Abundant and accessible information Implications, impacts and consequences Knowledge-based opportunities The need for help The knowledge entrepreneur Aims and scope of book. Chapter 2 Managing knowledge and intellectual capital: Knowledge management Loss of knowledge Knowledge exploitation Knowledge frameworks Premium knowledge. Chapter 3 Corporate learning and knowledge creation: Knowledge creation Knowledge as a flow rather than a stock Knowledge and learning Knowledge creation as a corporate priority Protecting intellectual capital Where knowledge entrepreneurs can help. Chapter 4 Contemporary information problems: Information overload - winners and losers Winning and losing The search for single solutions Taking certain approaches too far Barking up the wrong tree Barriers to entry Changing organizations and emerging issues. Chapter 5 Requirements of different stakeholders: Customers Suppliers and business partners Investors The contribution of boards The myth of inevitable progress Supportive approaches to management Leadership for learning. Chapter 6 Creating enterprise cultures: Becoming a player Working with employers Organizing for entrepreneurship Unity and diversity Ten essential freedoms. Chapter 7 Monitoring trends and the scope for knowledge entrepreneurship: Freedom of operation Understanding issues and implications Effective issue monitoring Supporting wealth creation. Chapter 8 Identifying and assessing specific opportunities: Establishing search criteria Searching for performance improvement opportunities Improving sales productivity Job support tools Benefits of using support tools. Chapter 9 Creating information- and knowledge-based offerings: Packaging what you know Building job support tools Lessons that can be learnt Differentiation. Chapter 10 Becoming a knowledge entrepreneur: Entrepreneurial qualities The knowledge entrepreneur Crossing the Rubicon The challenge of launching new products Creating a new product launch support tool Advantages of a product launch support tool Using examples of best practice. Chapter 11 Getting started: Routes to entrepreneurship Turning a hobby into a business Selecting corporate partners Creating a welcoming corporate environment Creating communities of entrepreneurs Organizing for learning and entrepreneurship Public policy requirements.