CFI Radio Hour - A Practical Approach to Innovation  

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• Archived Blog Post

  Date / Time: 2/1/2008 7:39 PM UTC

  The Entrepreneurial Society: Brains Not Brawn Leads the Way
  

  The Entrepreneurial Society needs to be on your list of must reads in 2008. Written by David B. Audretsch and published last year by Oxford University Press the message is even more pressing today.
  
  I'm pleased to have David Audretsch, an award-winning economist, as a guest February 3 during my CFI Radio Hour to discuss what proactive steps individuals, business leaders, and communities need to take if they hope to compete in today's global economy.
  
  The new, well-paying jobs in an entrepreneurial society require thinking, questioning, challenging, and decision-making abilities. Softer skills are the basis for innovation--what economists call knowledge. Come learn..
  

  1. What are some of the in-demand softer skills today.
  2. Why the cost of transmitting knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, rises with distance.
     
  3. Why knowledge 'spillover' and filters influence the success or failure of an entrepreneurial economy.
  4. What makes it easy to share information but not asymmetric knowledge, or life experiences?
  5. How Robert Noyce and Ted Hoff of Intel fame, former CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Jack Harding, and Apple’s Steve Jobs penetrated the knowledge filter via entrepreneurship.
     
  6. Are large corporations doomed to play only minor roles in moving society into the future?
     
  7. What is the role that universities must play in the evolution of an entrepreneurial society?
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