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Abstract
Technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship are all subjects of current interest - for both theorists (as academia, researchers' community) and practitioners (business people as well as strategists and decision makers at all levels) - each subject having its own quite well-defined study area. This paper introduces the concept of Technopreneurship as a merging point and interdisciplinary area of interest of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation. The concept emerges naturally, as recent development trend of alt the above. However, the author takes the entrepreneurship side (actually technology-based entrepreneurship). 7 he three focal merging areas of interest are presented on the background of recent literature summarized survey on several topics related to entrepreneurial studies: entrepreneurial profile; gender, age and ethnicity; entrepreneurship studies by industries and/or regions; legal and fiscal entrepreneurship environment; entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial university. Some newer areas of entrepreneurial studies are also mentioned: intellectual entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship infrastructure; entrepreneurial networks. The aim of the paper is to launch a provocative discussion on the newly coined term Technopreneurship, and even newer concepts as Technowledge (technology knowledge) and, therefore, Technowledgepreneurship (technology knowledge entrepreneurship). Mostly conceptual, based on significant literature survey, the paper explores the entrepreneurship bordering areas, and the discussion stimulated by this paper may be important for scholars and entrepreneurs alike.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Technology, Innovation, Technopreneurship, Technowledge, Technowledgepreneurship
INTRODUCTION
This paper intends to present the concept of technopreneurship not only as an overlapping zone of interdisciplinary studies ("triple-point-border") but also as a natural trend: a merging point of three distinct areas of interest. Technopreneurship emerges naturally, as new development of all the above mentioned subjects: entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation. All the way, the author's standpoint is on the entrepreneurship side (technology-based entrepreneurship - as we talk today about technology increasingly).
It is the author's intention that ideas, which are launched herein as result of fair and extensive literature survey, in addition to own experience, to generate fruitful further discussions.
The paper is organized into two main parts: recent mainstream literature on entrepreneurship; fair arguments for interdisciplinary studies in the areas of interest (Entrepreneurship - Innovation; Innovation - Technology; Technology - Entrepreneurship), completed with conclusions and new avenues identified in entrepreneurial studies.
Literature on Entrepreneurship
Traditionally, entrepreneurship is about entrepreneur and his/her enterprise; how...