ABSTRACT

What is the role of entrepreneurs in the innovation system of a country? What sort of people become entrepreneurs and what sort of business strategies do they adopt? In particular, Silicon Valley ‘garage’ start-ups have been the new wave of entrepreneurial change agents at the heart of the digital innovation process; and it’s their vision, and their passion and commitment that builds the bridges between the opportunities of new technologies and markets, and their commercial realisation involving risk taking. 1