Text Sushi by Alf Rehn

Well, wonders never cease. I’ve talked and wrote about the problem of just glibly proclaiming that entrepreneurship is good a priori, and now it turns out that Scott Shane agrees with me. In a text on The Entrepreneurship Myth, he comes straight out and says that sometimes (quite often, in fact) entrepreneurship is neither a good career option, nor a particularly good thing for society. Obviosuly this does not mean that all entrepreneurship is bad, rather that we need to take a reality-check to get through the hype. The amusing thing in all this is that entrepreneurship-researchers have always freaked out when I’ve said stuff like this, accused me of lord knows what, and now the number one guy in the field (Scott is one of the most referenced living researchers of e:ship) comes out and says the same thing (if in more guarded language and backed up by a ton of data). This could be fun…

Reading Times Online I come across the following: Business benefits from a more disciplined approach. Imagine my surprise when it turns out the article discusses business gurus, and lists me as a “star of the future”. Niiice…

Yeah, but… IBM?

Just thought that I’d mention that there is an article about me and my research group up at Entré (in Swedish).

My friend Howard Adamsky just published an article at ere.net with the title Recruiting, Innovation, and Thinking Differently. It’s a lovely piece, and not just because he so kindly mentions me.