Agile Start-up Business Planning and Lean Implementation Management on Democratic Innovation and Creativity

Startups are the entities developed by innovative minds aiming to change the world and disrupt the industry. However, those minds are often trapped in what they want to do and on what they have to do. Planning a business based on disruptive visions can contradict the logic that all business must be fast profitable and sustainable. One way to resolve this challenge is by democratizing the business planning process for the knowledge elicitation and commitment confirmation. This paper provides to start-ups, young entrepreneurs and ambitious innovators a practical methodological framework for democratic and agile business plan development, supported with templates and metrics for collective thinking and lean management. Under the applied philosophy for management and leadership concepts and driven by the Delphic maxis of miden-aga, metron-ariston and know-thyself, the framework balances first the nurturing of brilliant minds and then the management and leadership of their brilliant ideas, insights and innovations

Innovation ecosystem in selected regions of the Czech Republic and Poland: Specifics of infrastructure supporting innovative entrepreneurship

There are no official statistics in the Czech Republic and Poland mapping the number of start-ups, spin-offs, and organizations supporting innovative businesses. The paper defines the specifics of innovation ecosystem in selected regions of the CZ Moravian-Silesian Region and PL Silesian Voivodeship. Similar economic and socio-cultural developments characterize chosen regions. Hypotheses are defined whose statistical significance is evaluated through the Pearson Chi-Square test. The results are estimated separately for the Moravian-Silesian Region and Silesian Voivodeship and focus on identifying the ownership of organizations, the nature of services provided, and the average annual occupancy of clients in the business phase financing business support programs and possible cooperation between organization. Using the hierarchical cluster analysis with the Ward method, the authors described four clusters. Based on the results obtained from the solution, a general model of the innovation ecosystem supporting innovative entrepreneurship is defined.Web of Science301art. no. 155