Who is the technopreneur?

References: Mohamed Dahlan Ibrahim, Ph.D



•Someone who perceives an opportunity and creates an organization to pursue it.

•A person who undertakes risks (by creating an enterprise or business) that has the chance of profit (or success). Technopreneurs distinguishes themselves through their ability to accumulate and manage knowledge, as well as their ability to mobilize resources to achieve a specified business or social goal (Kuemmerle, 2002)

•The technopreneur is a bold, imaginative deviator from established business methods and practices who constantly seeks the opportunity to commercialize new products, technologies, processes, and arrangements (Baumol, 2002)

•The technopreneur distinguishes logic from tradition, tradition from prejudice, prejudice from common sense and common sense from nonsense while integrating a variety of ideas from diverse groups and disciplines (Manuel Cereijo, 2002)