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Does Your Agency Have An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem?

Does your agency have an entrepreneurial ecosystem?

  • September 30, 2018
  • Blog

Does your agency have an entrepreneurial ecosystem? The graphic above was developed by author Tim Mazzarol for an article about the nine major elements that are part of an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the private sector. (You can find the article…

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Federal Lab Innovations In Your House

Federal lab innovations in your house

  • July 15, 2018
  • Blog

The Federal Lab Consortium does a great job with their web site in general, but they've added another feature, which is called LabTech in Your Life. This is a good primer for someone new to Technology Transfer and government innovation…

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Mapping Your Organization’s Growth

Mapping your organization’s growth

  • March 14, 2018
  • Blog

Brainstorming growth with the Ansoff matrix A profoundly simple tool for mapping growth is called the Ansoff matrix. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansoff_Matrix. Entrepreneurs in government and industry use this model to map out potential growth paths. It…

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Public Entrepreneurship Defined

Public Entrepreneurship Defined

  • February 7, 2018
  • Blog

Harvard Professor Howard Stevenson studied and taught entrepreneurship at the Ivy league school for many years. Stevenson’s explanation of entrepreneurship as “ the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled” is accepted as the gold standard definition. An article in Harvard…

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Is “Government Entrepreneur” An Oxymoron?

Is “Government Entrepreneur” an Oxymoron?

  • February 1, 2018
  • Blog

When I teach my “Government Entrepreneur” class, I start by asking students to raise a hand if they think that the words ‘government’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ don’t belong together. It never fails that a few hands go up in the air.…

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