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This month, the EIX platform marks its 10 th anniversary. Along with our anniversary, we are also celebrating a milestone in viewership: We will achieve 12 million page views for the academic year Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Jon Eckhardt
Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX) and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) have formed an alliance to bring more research-tested advice on how to launch, finance, staff and run Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: David Townsend and Catherine Buday
In 2000, when I was on the Board of Directors at Best Buy, the company decided to launch online shopping. The Best Buy founder and then-CEO Dick Schulze was ready to make a multimillion-dollar Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: James C Wetherbe
Photo taken by Kai Dragland at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2012 Since our founding in 2014, a central part of our mission at EIX has been supporting knowledge-sharing Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Daniel Forbes
Mat Hughes (left) is now Senior Editor of familybusiness.org and David Townsend (right) is Senior Editor of EIX. As readership continues to rise dramatically year after year, EIX.org and Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds
Nanotechnology had its genesis in science fiction stories. We need to better understand how initial wisps of ideas eventually solidify into entrepreneurial opportunities. For several decades, Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Michael Lounsbury and Tim Hannigan
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is adapted from the authors’ contributions to a forthcoming book,The Field Guide to Family Business Research, edited by Keith Brigham and G. Tyge Payne. Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Lori Tribble Trudell , Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe
Small companies with a promising technology or service often look to partner with bigger firms to get access to money, distribution channels and manufacturing facilities they need to help their Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Jason Pattit and David Deeds
Too often, academic research is buried in jargon that no one can understand. The best academic research changes how people view their world and do their jobs. Scholarly study of entrepreneurship can Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Andrew Zacharakis
About half of articles written by academics are never cited. That's because they are dry, difficult to understand and of interest only to other academics. An old joke says that if a doctoral student Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Catherine Buday and James C Wetherbe