Chapter 1. Innovation and Commercialisation in Small Firms -- Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations of the Book -- Chapter 3. The Decision to Innovate -- Chapter 4. Screening Opportunities -- Chapter 5. The Business Model and Innovation Strategy -- Chapter 6. Managing Uncertainty -- Chapter 7....

Investigates the differences in decision-making processes used by managers in large organizations and entrepreneurs. These differences are examined with respect to two biases and heuristics: overconfidence and representativeness. Overconfidence is defined as overestimating the probability of...

Prior work in business experimentation concludes that involving other stakeholders besides the entrepreneur mitigates the challenge of biased experimental decision-making. However, this work also maintains a key simplifying assumption—that the actors involved have a common goal to maximize...