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Producer technical entrepreneur
This category is the equivalent of the industrial technical entrepreneur identified by earlier researchers. In essence it includes entrepreneur whose background is industrial. Typically these are people who have been involved in, the development or production of commercial products, services or processes, usually in large industrial organisations. In Jones-Evans’(1995) study these were typically individuals with an engineering background and included:works managers, development managers, and technical managers, virtually all of whom were trained engineers, as well as draughtsmen, designers and project managers. A very small number had a purely scientific background and had worked as research scientists. All had a strong technical background even if their most recent position was a managerial one. As a result most combined a strong mix of both technical and managerial experience. What is striking about this type of technical entrepreneur is how technical and managerial aspects are brought together in a single individual. Significantly this group constituted more than half the sample in Jones-Evans’ survey, suggesting that although the notion of an academic entrepreneur is one that is most readily identified with technical entrepreneur perhaps this is a misperception, certainly as far as the UK is concerned.