Product: Management and Development
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Product: Management and Development
Research Article

Setting the P-Start for digital entrepreneurship: an idea-to-company process model integrated with innovation management tools

Matheus Luiz Pontelo de Souza, Raoni Barros Bagno, Leonel Del Rey de Melo Filho

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Abstract

The relevance of Digital Entrepreneurship is increasingly growing, especially in the context of Innovation Ecosystems. However, little attention has been paid to product/service and business levels of analysis, despite the complex managerial and technological skills required in startup generation processes. Based on technology entrepreneurship and innovation management perspectives, we propose the P-Start approach: an idea-to-company process model integrated with innovation m

Keywords

digital entrepreneurship, innovation process, innovation tools, agile methods, technology entrepreneurship.

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Submitted date:
02/13/2022

Accepted date:
02/15/2022

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