Technopreneurship and Sustainability

Innovation, Challenges, and Opportunities
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88350-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Higher Education and Sustainability

Technopreneurship is an advanced version of entrepreneurship that incorporates cutting-edge technologies from AI to big data into entrepreneurial activities and leads to innovative solutions to problems that previous solutions have failed to sustain in the long term. This book explains the fundamentals of developing and establishing a small one-person business or a large organization, building technological solutions, and performing effectively and efficiently. It covers all aspects of an entrepreneurial journey, guiding readers from the startup stage, growing a business, sustainability, and clarifies the role of technopreneurship as a tool to enhance sustainability in today’s entrepreneurial ventures.

Features

- Explains the theory and the practice of entrepreneurship in today’s technological era

- Presents technological developments, their implementations, and the potential outcomes of technology used in entrepreneurial activities

- Covers sustainability and the role of technologies to achieve sustainable development goals associated with different ventures

- Discusses ways to minimize failures of entrepreneurial ventures especially in startups

- Includes real-life case studies focused on today’s problems and solutions

This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in Entrepreneurship and Startup as well as business consultants and business owners in any field.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davim, J. Paulo

Kumar, Rajender

Singh, Punj Lata

Sindhwani, Rahul

Kumar, Raman

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Technopreneurship: Concept and Beyond. 2. Innovation and Impact: Case Studies of Technology-Based Enterprises. 3. Pioneering the Tech Frontier: Leadership Strategies of Successful Women Technopreneurs. 4. Technopreneurship in the Digital Age: Merging Technology and Entrepreneurship for Global Innovation. 5. Digitalization in Businesses Growth and Scaling. 6. Navigating Challenges for Tech-Based Enterprises Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach. 7. Ethical and Sustainability Challenges for Technopreneurship: A Way Forward to Find the Solutions. 8. Government Support and Policies. 9. "Technopreneurship in India”: A Case Study Analysis of Success Factors and Challenges with reference to Bangalore, Karnataka.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Rajender Kumar is an Independent Auditor and Trainer for various ISO Standard. Dr. Kumar is a seasoned book editor in the area of Entrepreneurship with a passion for fostering innovation and technology based sustainable solutions. With a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding on technological advancement, he audited MSME’s in India and helped them in bringing various groundbreaking ideas based on technology to streamline the supply chain. From crafting compelling narratives to refining complex technical concepts, he is dedicated to producing high-quality research work in terms of Books, Journals and Conference Publications. Apart from this, he is also certified verifier and validator for Green House Gases as per ISO- 4064.

Dr. Rahul Sindhwani is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Odisha. He has over 10 years of experience in teaching and research and has made significant contributions to the academic community through his research work, which has been published in highly regarded journals. He is also a guest editor of a highly esteemed journal about global responsibility. His expertise lies in decision science, quantitative techniques, sustainability, and operations management, among others.

Dr. Raman Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Punjab, India. He has published over 100 research articles in national and international conferences and journals and enlisted in the Stanford World list of the top 2% of Scientists of 2022, 2023, and 2024. He received ISTE Best Teacher Award in 2021 and Faculty Excellence Award in 2023 from the Alumni association of GNDEC.

Dr. Punj Lata Singh is a post-doctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Management in Odisha. She has over 10 years of experience in teaching, research, and administrative roles. She is an active lifetime member of the Indian Society of Technical Education. She has worked in the field of implementation, analysis and optimization of problems using multi-criteria decision modelling techniques.

Dr. J. Paulo Davim is a Senior Chartered Engineer at the Portuguese Institution of Engineers and Specialist in Engineering and Industrial Management. He is also EUR ING by FEANI-Brussels and Fellow (FIET) by IET-London. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience and has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D., and master’s students. He has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects and received several scientific awards. He is associated with numerous journals, conferences, and book series in the capacity of Editor in Chief, Guest Editor, books Editor, book Series Editor, and Scientific Advisory member.