Gorkan ahmetoglu Technology & the Entrepreneurial Revolution

1. Technology & the
Entrepreneurial Revolution
Dr Gorkan Ahmetoglu

2. What do 70% entrepreneurs
have in common?

3. Self-employed Wage-employed Difference
Average hours worked per week
Blanchflower (1999). Self employment: more may not be better. Swedish Economic Policy Review, 11, 215-74

4. Desktop lunches & 24/7 connectivity

6. 40% of staff live outside the country in which their manager works

7. • Flexibility over location for work is offered by 84% of
businesses
• 66% of employees say that given the opportunity they would
request flexible working
• 36% of British workers have worked as a contractor, freelancer
or agency worker at some point in their career

9. On demand economy

16. Crowdsourcing$talent$

26. The Entrepreneurial Bureaucrat

29. Machines don’t innovate (yet)
1. Acquiring innovation (M&A)
2. Creating capacity for innovation

30. The Corporate Entrepreneur
1. Entrepreneurial employees produce higher
innovation output (c.f. Ahmetoglu et al, 2014)
2. Need to be in an entrepreneurial culture
(Akhtar et al., 2016)
3. If disengaged they are far more likely to quit
(Nefroviya et al., 2014)
4. Bureaucratic cultures disengage employees
(Akhtar et al., 2016)

31. Technological Effects
1. Productivity and efficiency
2. Flexibility
3. Maximising resources
4. Unleashed innovation

32. Technological Side-Effects
• Millennial needs?
• Long term consequences of the
on-demand economy?
• Survival of the fittest
(entrepreneurs)?

34. “The problem with smartphones is
that they’ve made them too good”

35. 20%$of$people$text$while$having$sex$

36. Thinking about it holistically

37. Incremental Innovation

38. Incremental Innovation

39. Radical Innovation

40. Questions?
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