Thought leaders like Vivek Wadhwa, Steve Blank and others have helped emerging market countries to walk on the path of knowledge creation by creating programs like Start-Up Chile, an initiative of the Chilean Government to attract entrepreneurs to start their early stage companies in Chile. From Manila to Moscow to Mumbai, from Shanghai to San Paulo, these cities have a shortage of talent to create the mass of innovation, venture capital & new enterprises required for economic diversification & job growth. …
There is a shortage of experienced entrepreneurs, project managers & CEOs to lead tech start-ups on the path to commercialization in emerging market countries. In my 1st post on this subject, I summarized the issues of attracting senior staff to start-ups in the emerging markets. Perhaps the path forward for emerging markets is to replicate the job bank solution that some American university technology transfer offices implemented to solve the problem they experience; how attract and retain talent when one is…
The seed for this Master Class came about from a request of the US Embassy Moscow to me in May 2010. The Embassy was asked by the the Governor of Novosibirsk, Russia to organize a conference on solutions the region could implement to stimulate more innovation, venture capital and entrepreneurship. My 60 minute presentation generated numerous questions that demonstrated the audience’s lack of understanding of what entrepreneurship is, how it and venture capital works, and actions government can implement to spur more innovation, technology creation and investment. John Hoxmeier,…