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Entrepreneurship is all around us. We watch entrepreneurs pitch their ideas on Shark Tank. We read stories in our local newspapers and hear how accelerator programs, sponsored by organizations such as the Midwest Energy Research Consortium in Milwaukee, are helping launch new start-ups.
Entrepreneurs are everywhere.—Eric Reis, The Lean Startup.
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Bosman, L., Fernhaber, S. (2018). Introduction. In: Teaching the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Engineers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61412-0_1
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