Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity
| Speaker : |
Prof S. Venkataraman, Samuel
Slover Professor of Business Administration;
Director of Research, Batten Institute, Darden
School, University of Virginia |
| Date: |
24 July 2001 (Monday) |
| Time: |
10.30am - 12.00noon |
| Venue: |
Conference Room D, #04-01, FBA1
Building, National University of Singapore.
|
Abstract
In this seminar, Prof Venkataraman will develop
a definition of entrepreneurial opportunity, delineate
its elements, and then examine it within three
views of the market process: i.e., the market
as an allocative process; as a discovery process;
and as a creative process (Buchanan & Vanberg).
Within each stream, he will examine the assumptions
about the knowledge (ignorance) of the decision
maker with regard to the future, and the implications
of those assumptions for strategies to recognize,
discover, and create entrepreneurial opportunities.
Depending on the particular set of assumptions,
the strategies include diversification, experimentation,
and effectuation. Finally, he will integrate the
three views of entrepreneurial opportunity through
an examination of the implications for strategic
management and entrepreneurship research.
About the Speaker
Prof Venkataraman earned a Ph.D. from the Carlson
School of Management at the University of Minnesota,
an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at
Calcutta, and a master's degree in economics from
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani,
India. His research work has been published in a
variety of academic journals and he is the editor
of the Journal of Business Venturing, a leading
entrepreneurship journal. He is also the Director
of Research of the Batten Center of Entrepreneurial
Leadership. Prof. Venkataraman held the Warren H.
Bruggeman and Pauline Urban Bruggeman Distinguished
Associate Professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. Prior to that he was Paul Yeakel Term
Assistant Professor of management at the Wharton
School of University of Pennsylvania. During his
tenure, he developed courses in entrepreneurship,
corporate venturing and corporate and business strategy.
He has conducted extensive research and has consulted
with companies in these areas as well. He has also
worked in corporate and business planning with Wipro
Products Ltd., a leading high-tech., high growth
company in India. He was responsible for producing
the annual and three-year plans and coordinating
new business development in the information technology
business of the company.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues
to attend the talk. As there are limited number
of seats available, please register for the talk
via email to
Joanne
(cmtsimbh@nus.edu.sg)
with your name, designation and company/institution
(and email add if via fax),
by 21 July 2001. Please forward this invitation
to your friends and colleagues who may be interested.
Admission is free |
