Boyd Cohen

Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship (eBook, ePUB)

Startups for the 99%

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about understanding the implications of the post-capitalist society for our knowledge about entrepreneurship around the globe and challenges many of our underlying assumptions about how entrepreneurs form startups, with what objectives and the role, or lack thereof, for startup investors in a post-capitalist society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351774123
• Artikelnr.: 62172655

Autorenporträt

Boyd Cohen obtained his Ph.D. in entrepreneurship and strategy from the University of Colorado in 2001. Boyd has taught entrepreneurship in Madrid, Spain (Instituto de Empresa); Costa Rica (INCAE), University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia in Canada, UdeSA (Argentina) and currently at the Universidad del Desarrollo (Santiago, Chile). He has published numerous articles on entrepreneurship, sustainability and smart cities in journals such as the Journal of Business Venturing, Technovation, Business Strategy and the Environment, California Management Review, Organization & Environment and many others. Furthermore, Boyd is the co-author, with Hunter Lovins, of the acclaimed 2011 book, entitled Climate Capitalism. In 2016, he published The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur (Praeger) with a foreward by Richard Florida. The book immediately shot up and remained to #1 on Amazon.com's hot list for entrepreneurship.

Boyd has also started numerous ventures since 2003 in the areas of green buildigns and communities, Software as a Service (SaaS), mobile applications and carbon origination. Currently he is founder of Urban Innova, a boutique urban innovation consultancy. Boyd is a regular keynote speaker related to topics pertaining to urban innovation and entrepreneurship and smart and sustainable cities around the globe. He has been interviewed for CNN (in Chile), appeared on the cover of trade journals in Sweden and Chile, and cited in hundreds of articles online and in print media and in 2012 was a TEDx presenter.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Introduction. Drivers of a Shift to PostCapitalism. Commons-Based
Entrepreneurship. For-Benefit Startups. Alternative Currencies and
Place-Based PCE. From the Platform Deathstars to Technology-Enabled
Platform Cooperativism. Venture Capital is Dead in a PCE World. The
Distributed Autonomous Organization. What does a Future Society look like
with PCE from a Regional Perspective. Appendices