QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What is the role of the entrepreneur?
2. What is the difference between a manager and an entrepreneur?
3. Using an example of you choice identify what you consider to be the main characteristics of an entrepreneur?
4. Identify the different types of entrepreneur marking clear the ways in which they differ.
5. What is a technical entrepreneur?
6. Using one of the mini-cases build up profile of a technical entrepreneur?
7. Why have policy-markets become increasingly interested in technical entrepreneurs in recent years?
8. Why have small firms increasingly been recognised as an important source of innovation?