Section 1: The Challenge of Entrepreneurship
Section 1: The Challenge of Entrepreneurship
Section 1: The Challenge of Entrepreneurship
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Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small
Business Management
Ninth Edition, Global Edition
Chapter 2
Creativity and Innovation:
Keys to Entrepreneurial Success
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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
1. Explain the differences
among creativity,
innovation, and
entrepreneurship.
2. Describe why creativity
and innovation are such
an integral part of
entrepreneurship.
3. Explain the 10 “metal
locks” that limit individual
creativity.
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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)
4. Understand how entrepreneurs can enhance the
creativity of their employees as well as their own
creativity.
5. Describe the steps in the creative process.
6. Discuss techniques for improving the creative process.
7. Describe the protection of intellectual property through
patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
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Creativity and Innovation
• One of the tenets of entrepreneurship is the ability to create new
and useful ideas that solve the problems and challenges people
face every day.
• What is the entrepreneurial “secret” for creating value in the
marketplace?
• Creativity: the ability to develop new ideas and to discover new
ways of looking at problems and opportunities; thinking new
things.
• Innovation: the ability to apply creative solutions to problems or
opportunities to enhance or to enrich people’s lives; doing new
things.
• creativity is thinking new things and innovation is doing new
things.
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Entrepreneurship
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Failure: Part of the Creative Process!
• Most ideas don’t work and most innovations fail
• For every 5,000 to 10,000 new drug discoveries:
– 250 get to preclinical trials
– 5 make it to clinical trials
– 1 or 2 are reviewed by the FDA
– Only 1 gets to market
• Failure is part of the creative process
• Trial—and lots of error—is embedded in entrepreneurship.
• Rather than quit when they fail, entrepreneurs simply keep
trying (Edison, Harry potter’s author).
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Creativity: Essential to Survival
• Creativity is an important source of building a competitive
advantage
• Can we learn to be creative? Yes!
• By overcoming paradigms and by suspending conventional
thinking long enough to consider new and different
alternatives.
• Research shows that anyone can learn to be creative.
“Every person can be taught techniques and behaviors that
help them generate more ideas,” says Joyce Wycoff, author
of several books on creativity.
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Hövding Invisible Bike Helmet, Airbag (Sweden’s Lund University)
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Creative Thinkers: (1 of 3)
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Creative Thinkers: (2 of 3)
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Creative Thinkers: (3 of 3)
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Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking
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Barriers to Creativity (1 of 2)
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Barriers to Creativity (2 of 2)
• Becoming overly specialized
• Avoiding ambiguity (Ambiguous situations force us to
stretch our minds)
• Fearing looking foolish
• Fearing mistakes and failure
• Believing that “I’m not creative” (Some people limit
themselves because they believe that creativity belongs
only to the Einsteins, Beethovens, and da Vincis).
Successful entrepreneurs are willing to take some risks,
explore new ideas, play a little, ask “What if ?”
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Spurring the Imagination *ل
( *( )ت**حفيز ا**لخيا1 of 3)
• Questions to ask:
– Is there a new way to do it ?
– Can you borrow or adapt it ?
– Can you give it a new twist (? ) لمسة جديدة
– Do you merely need more of the same ?
– Do you need less of the same ?
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Spurring the Imagination (2 of 3)
• Is there a substitute?
• Can you rearrange the parts?
• What if you do just the opposite?
• Can you combine ideas?
• Can you put it to other uses?
• What else could you make from this?
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Spurring the Imagination (3 of 3)
• Are there other markets for it?
• Can you reverse it?
• Can you eliminate it?
• Can you put it to another use?
• What idea seems impossible, but if executed, would
revolutionize your business?
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Enhancing Organizational Creativity (1 of 3)
Ensuring that workers have the freedom and the incentive to be
creative is one of the best ways to achieve innovation:
• Include creativity as a core company value.
• Hire for creativity.
• Create an organizational structure that nourishes creativity.
• Embrace diversity.
• Expect creativity.
• Expect and tolerate failure.
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Enhancing Organizational Creativity (2 of 3)
• Incorporate fun into the work environment.
• Encourage curiosity.
• Design a work space that encourages creativity.
• View problems as opportunities.
• Provide creativity training.
• Provide support.
• Develop a procedure for capturing ideas.
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Enhancing Organizational Creativity (3 of 3)
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Enhancing Individual Creativity (1 of 4)
• Allow yourself to be creative.
• Forget the “rules.”
• Give your mind fresh input every day.
• Take up a hobby.
• Travel and observe.
• Collaborate with other people.
• Observe the products and services of other companies,
especially those in completely different markets.
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Enhancing Individual Creativity (2 of 4)
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Enhancing Individual Creativity (3 of 4)
• Watch a movie.
• Go for a walk.
• Talk to a child.
• Do something ordinary in an unusual way.
• Keep a toy box in your office.
• Do not throw away seemingly “bad” ideas.
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Enhancing Individual Creativity (4 of 4)
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The Creative Process:
1. Preparation
2. Investigation
3. Transformation
4. Incubation
5. Illumination
6. Verification
7. Implementation
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1- Preparation
• Get your mind ready for creative thinking.
– Adopt the attitude of a lifelong student.
– Read … a lot … and not just in your field of expertise.
– Clip articles of interest to you and save them.
– Develop your listening skills.
• Join professional or trade associations and attend their
meetings.
• Eliminate creative distractions.
• Take time to discuss your ideas with other people.
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2- Investigation
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3- Transformation
• Involves viewing both the similarities and the differences
among the information collected.
• Two types of thinking are required:
– Convergent: the ability to see the similarities and the
connections among various and often diverse data and
events.
– Divergent: the ability to see the differences among
various data and events.
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3- Transformation (2 of 2)
• How can you transform information into purposeful ideas?
– Grasp the “big picture” by looking for patterns that
emerge.
– Rearrange the elements of the situation.
– Use synectics: taking two seeming nonsensical ideas
and combining them.
– Remember that several approaches can be successful.
If one fails, jump to another.
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4- Incubation
• Allow your subconscious to reflect on the information
collected.
– Walk away from the situation.
– Take the time to daydream.
– Relax – and play – regularly.
– Dream about the problem or opportunity.
– Work on the problem in a different environment.
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5- Illumination
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6- Verification
• Validate the idea as accurate and useful.
– Is it really a better solution?
– Will it work?
– Is there a need for it?
– If so, what is the best application of this idea in the
marketplace?
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6- Verification
• Does this product or service fit into our core
competencies?
• How much will it cost to produce or to provide?
• Can we sell it at a reasonable price that will produce a
profit?
• Will people buy it?
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7- Implementation
• The focus of this step is to transform the idea into reality.
Plenty of people come up with creative ideas for promising
new products or services, but most never take them
beyond the idea stage.
• What sets entrepreneurs apart is that they act on their
ideas.
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Techniques for Improving the Creative
Process
Brainstorming:
• The goal is to create a large quantity of novel and
imaginative ideas.
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Brainstorming Guidelines (1 of 2)
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Brainstorming Guidelines (2 of 2)
• Appoint a recorder.
• Throw logic out the window.
• Encourage all ideas from the team.
• Shoot for quantity of ideas over quality of ideas.
• Use a circular or U-shaped seating pattern.
• Forbid criticism.
• Encourage idea “hitch-hiking.”
• Dare to imagine the unreasonable.
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Mind-Mapping
Mind-mapping:
• A graphical technique that encourages thinking on both
sides of the brain, visually displays relationships among
ideas, and improves the ability to see a problem from
many sides.
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The Mind-Mapping Process
• Start by writing down or sketching a picture symbolizing
the problem or area of focus in the center of a blank page.
• Work as quickly as possible and write down every idea that
comes into your mind for 20 minutes, connecting each to
the central picture or words with a line.
• Don’t try to force creativity.
• After a brief rest, begin to integrate the ideas into a mind
map.
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Rapid Prototyping
Rapid Prototyping:
• Transforming an idea into an actual model that will point
out flaws and lead to design improvements.
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Protecting Your Ideas (1 of 3)
Patent:
• A grant from the Patent and Trademark Office to the
inventor of product, giving the exclusive right to make, use,
or sell the invention for 20 years from the date of filing the
patent application.
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Protecting Your Ideas (2 of 3)
• Trademark: any distinctive word, symbol, design, name,
logo, slogan, or trade dress a company uses to identify the
origin of a product or to distinguish it from other goods on
the market.
• Service mark: the same as a trademark except that it
identifies the source of a service rather than a product.
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Protecting Your Ideas (3 of 3)
• Copyright: an exclusive right that protects the creators of
original works of authorship such as literary, dramatic,
musical, and artistic works.
– Copyrighted material is denoted by the symbol ©.
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Conclusion
• Creativity and innovation are vital components to
entrepreneurial success.
• Successful entrepreneurs constantly push themselves and
the people in their businesses to think bold new thoughts,
come up with fresh new ideas, and question the status
quo.
• The results of their efforts are innovative new products,
services, and business models that benefit all of us and
improve the quality of our lives.
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