{"id":924,"date":"2023-02-23T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/?p=924"},"modified":"2023-02-24T08:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T07:47:04","slug":"98-research-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/newsletter-library\/98-research-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"

>\u00a0<\/span>Return to the #98 Newsletter<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

Entrepreneurship drives innovation, productivity, and employment, while helping to address societal challenges. Today, a new wave of entrepreneurship is emerging that is more attuned to diversity, inclusion and social responsibility issues amid rising economic pressures and a cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n

At its core, entrepreneurship is about creating value and seizing opportunities in both startup projects and existing firms. But succeeding requires special qualities, including a willingness to take risks and a flair for persuasion, as well as support from organizations and a nurturing environment for innovation and growth. Early-stage funding is often essential, and entrepreneurs must navigate different stages of development to achieve sustainability.<\/p>\n

This library newsletter provides valuable resources for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, whether starting a new venture or growing an existing one. We hope you will find these resources useful in developing your entrepreneurial mindset and achieving success in your ventures.<\/p>\n

1. Getting Started
\n<\/strong>Literature on Entrepreneurship:
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Books & Articles on Entrepreneurship:
\nDiscovery<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. Books & Articles on Entrepreneurship available at the IESE Library.
\nPlease, use the facets on the left side menu to limit your search results.<\/p>\n

\u2022 News on Entrepreneurship:
\nFactiva<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ft.com Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WEF Strategic Intelligence. Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Top Entrepreneur Journals & Magazines:
\nEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nFast Company<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nForbes Entrepreneurs<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nHarvard Business Review<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nInc.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nInternational Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nJournal of Business Venturing<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nStrategic Management Journal<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nTechcrunch<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. IESE & Entrepreneurship
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Entrepreneurship at IESE<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IESE Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (EIC)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IESE International Search Fund Center<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IESE Entrepreneurship Blog<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IESE Insight. Publications on Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IESE Student Entrepreneurship Clubs<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Business Planning
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books<\/span><\/a> <\/strong>on Business Planning available at IESE Library.
\nPlease, use the facets on the left side menu to limit your search results.<\/p>\n

Statista. Business Plan Export<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nCreate your business plan in 3 steps. The Business Plan Export helps you to model markets.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Free resources:
\nBPlans<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

US Small Business Administration. Write your Business Plan.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Legal Issues. Templates and Forms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Europe
\nEC. Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EC. EUGO. Points of Single Contact (PSCs)<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nPSCs are e-government portals that allow service providers to get the information they need and complete administrative procedures online.<\/p>\n

EC. Your Europe Business Portal<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nPractical Guide to Doing Business in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Spain
\nACCI\u00d3. Agency for Business Competitiveness<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gobierno de Espa\u00f1a. National Entrepreneurship Office<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 USA
\nUSA. National Venture Capital Association: Model Documents<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

USA. UpCounsel Legal Documents<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Understand the Market<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Market & Industry Databases:<\/p>\n

MarketLine<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nDatabase for global company, industry, country and city research.<\/p>\n

Passport<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nGlobal market research database providing insight on industries, economies and consumers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Pitchbook<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nInformation on companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle. Find Market reports on VC, PE, and M&A from Pitchbook.<\/p>\n

Refinitiv Workspace<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\n(For desktop application or web access please email library@iese.edu<\/span><\/a>)
\nFinancial information service, including market data, news, analytics and trading tools. Also investment banking reports, country and economic data.<\/p>\n

Statista<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nImmediate access to over one million statistics and facts.<\/p>\n

Gartner<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nMarket research and analysis on information technology, with an emphasis on enterprise level decision makers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Company Databases:<\/p>\n

Capital IQ<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nData on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people.<\/p>\n

Orbis<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nGlobal database with information on the Very large and Large companies worldwide (public and private).<\/p>\n

Pitchbook<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nInformation on companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle.<\/p>\n

Refinitiv Workspace<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\n(For desktop application or web access please email library@iese.edu<\/span><\/a>)
\nFinancial information service, including market data, news, analytics and trading tools.<\/p>\n

Sabi<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Accounts and contacts for 2,500,000+ public and private Spanish companies.<\/p>\n

6. Search Funds<\/strong><\/p>\n

IESE Business Angels Network<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nA network for investors & entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Finaves Venture Capital Fund<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nFinancing IESE alumni startups.<\/p>\n

EC. Access to EU Finance<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Invest Europe<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 VC\/PE Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

Books<\/span><\/a><\/strong> on Private Equity<\/strong> and Venture Capital<\/strong>.
\nPlease, use the facets on the left side menu to limit your search results.<\/p>\n

\u2022 News on VC\/PE:
\nPitchbook<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. The Daily Pitch: VC, PE and M&A<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/strong> (Available only from the Barcelona Library)
\nLaunch PE<GO> for a menu of private equity screening and industry dashboard functions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Overview & Analysis:
\nInternational Search Funds 2022: Selected Observations<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nIESE Business School in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business report.<\/p>\n

Venture Capital & Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nCreated from a research project at the IESE Business School.<\/p>\n

Pitchbook<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nMarket Reports on VC, PEC and M&A.<\/p>\n

National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Yearbook<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nDocuments trends and analysis of venture capital activity in the United States.<\/p>\n

American Investment Council<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nInvestment trends in US.<\/p>\n

Bain & Co. Global Private Equity Report<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ernst & Young Private Equity Survey<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

McKinsey’s Private Markets Annual Review<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Private Equity International<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

7. Policies & Indicators<\/strong><\/p>\n

Startup Europe<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

OECD. SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook 2021<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

OECD. Entrepreneurship and Business Statistics<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

OECD. SMEs and Entrepreneurs Financing<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

ACCI\u00d3. Catalonia Trade & Investment<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Patents & Technology Transfer<\/strong><\/p>\n

IESE Technology Transfer Group<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Orbis Intellectual Property<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nOrbis Intellectual Property is a full-text patent database of private and public companies around the world, comprising 142 million patents and patent applications.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Technology Transfer Organizations:
\nNational Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nNon-profit Organization that focuses on improving the commercialization of academic Research.<\/p>\n

Association of University Technology Managers<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Free Patent resources:
\nGoogle Patents<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Espacenet European Patent Office patent search tool<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lens Institutional Toolkit<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office patent search<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

9. Corporate Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discovery<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. Books & Articles on Corporate Innovation, Internal Entrepreneurs.
\nPlease, use the facets on the left side menu to limit your search results.<\/p>\n

IESE Open Innovation and Corporate Venturing Institute<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

10. Entreprenerial Associations & Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ashoka<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nSocial Entrepreneurship Organization.<\/p>\n

Entrepreneurs Organization<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Startup Grind<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Young Entrepreneur Council<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

11. Entrepreneurship Portals<\/strong><\/p>\n

BDC Tool Kit<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EC. Enterprise Europe Network<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EC. Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EC. Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EC. Setting up a Business in the EU<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

EU. Startup Europe<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Global Entrepreneurship Research Association. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kauffman Foundation. Entrepreneurship.org<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Spain<\/p>\n

Spain Government. Portal PYME<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

ACCI\u00d3 – Agency for Business Competitiveness. Government of Catalonia. Barcelona & Catalonia Startup Hub<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ajuntament de Barcelona. Barcelona Activa. Entrepreneurship Support Info<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

12. Entrepreneurship Reports, Trends, Research & Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statista. Startups-worldwide<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Statista Dossier on e-commerce Startups<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

BNP Paribas Global Entrepreneur Reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Startup Genome Reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs 2021 (MIWE)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

PWC. High Growth Potential Companies: One Step Further for Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

WB. Global Startups – Statistics & Facts<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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>\u00a0Return to the #98 Newsletter Entrepreneurship drives innovation, productivity, and employment, while helping to address societal challenges. Today, a new wave of entrepreneurship is emerging that is more attuned to diversity, inclusion and social responsibility issues amid rising economic pressures and a cost-of-living crisis. At its core, entrepreneurship is about creating value and seizing opportunities in both startup projects and existing firms. But succeeding requires special qualities, including a willingness… <\/p>\n

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