Chapter 1 - A social and economic process

Chapter 2 - The entrepreneur mind and action

Chapter 3 - The entrepreneurial process

Chapter 4 - Intrapreneurship

Chapter 5 - Small business

Chapter 6 - Adoption and diffusion of innovation

Chapter 7 - Entrepreneurial vision versus the planning ethos

Chapter 8 - Financing the venture

Chapter 9 - Technology, technopreneurs and disruptive innovations

Chapter 10 - Intellectual property management and commercialisation

Chapter 11 - Team building and company leadership

Tim Mazzarol, BA (Hon), BEd, MBA, PhD is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia and Director of the UWA Business School’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation (CEMI). He has extensive experience in designing, developing and delivering management education programs targeted at a wide range of levels from undergraduate to postgraduate.

He has over fifteen years of working within small business development roles including that of Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the School of Management, Executive Director of the Bank West Entrepreneurship and Business Development Unit at Curtin University of Technology, and Research Fellow within the Institute for Research into International Competitiveness (IRIC) at Curtin Business School.

He has ten years of experience with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade including a diplomatic posting to the Australian Embassy Bangkok. He was also an Assistant Agency Manager with National Mutual where he managed sales teams and dealt with numerous small business clients. He is a major share-holder and non-Executive Director of JMG Marketing (Aust) Pty Ltd.

Tim is an active member of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ), the Entrepreneurship and Small Business (EISB) research network and the EISB research network of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).

He is widely published both nationally and internationally within the field of entrepreneurship and small business management and is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Small Business Management, and Small Enterprise Research: the Journal of SEAANZ.

Tim has consulted widely to both government and industry including the Governments of Australia, Canada and Western Australia; and such organisations as Nokia, BankWest Ltd, StateWest Credit Society, the Water Corporation of WA, Wesfarmers Ltd, LandCorp, Woodside Ltd, the Small Business Development Corporation and a wide variety of small to medium enterprises. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre for Business Research (CEREN) at the Burgundy School of Business, Groupe ESC Dijon Bourgogne, France.