ABSTRACT
This chapter examines three aspects of technology acceleration: technology convergence, integration, and ecosystems. It then focuses on the role of the internal or organizational technology ecosystem accelerator. Technology accelerators can promote execution efficiency, creativity and technology, and the knowledge explosion-liberation of routine thinking and the making of predictions to create new knowledge. The concept and process of technology accelerators have helped to produce a cadre of ventures that have created goods and services that can be used to fast-track start-ups. Entrepreneurs with value propositions and business models can launch a new business using existing e-business platforms, such as eBay, Amazon, or Etsy. Entrepreneurs can use the Cloud for their server and database needs, create diagrams of the design models with Google Sketchup, and build new products with both three-dimensional printing and affordable programmable robotics. With the internet and the World Wide Web, entrepreneurs, limited only by their imaginations, can immediately become international businesses.
