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Interview with Enrique Dans

Publicado por SusanaAP
miércoles, 08 de mayo de 2013 a las 12:52

Born in A Coruña (Spain), in May 14, 1965, Enrique Dans is one of the most prominent Spanish academics in the fields of technology adoption, entrepreneurship and innovation. He graduated with a Baccalaureate in Science at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 1989 and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at IE Business School (1989-90), before joining IE Business School as an Assistant Professor in IS/IT in September 1990. In 1996, Enrique got a grant to pursue doctoral studies at the John E. Anderson Business School at University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA): he graduated with a Ph.D. in Management in year 2000, with a dissertation focused on the transition of newspapers from the paper to the screen and the measurable effects of IT adoption in small and medium enterprises.

Which business opportunities do you find on the national market?

I don’t see many differences between the national market and other markets. I tend to think that there are few ideas that belong just to a national market. It’s difficult to think about general business opportunities because it depends on the implementation, not on the idea. However, I perceive quite a bit of activity in areas such as analytics, data generated by internet users and their consumption dynamics (energy, for instance, is a very interesting field), and other new issues related to emerging markets, like 3D printing (directly and indirectly, throughout the opportunities its gradual popularization will bring).

Name 3 tips you would give to an entrepreneur.

To be an open minded person. Not to get obsessed by thinking: “they are going to steal my idea”, and to choose the opposite approach: sharing your ideas from the very beginning will give you experience and other points of view, helping you to create a community and giving you relevance.

If you are an entrepreneur, it’s always better to be open minded. Networking brings you more positive than negative things. Besides, it’s important to think big, not to get stuck on domestic ideas or on ideas for the local market. You should think on ideas with the ability to scale, regardless to it apparently may seem to be out of your reach.

Another tip I would give an entrepreneur is to keep all of his/her experience, doubts, and crucial moments in a diary – better if public.

There are good few voices marking there might be an Internet Start-up Boom. What do you think about this?

Well, there are good few voices saying it might rain… No, seriously: there are always doomsayers, it is in the human nature. The truth is that “Internet Start-ups” are no longer “Internet Start-ups”, but just start-ups: if you are an entrepreneur working in your own business, you cannot ignore Internet.

Boom? Nowadays, the greatest excesses I have seen are done in traditional enterprises, such as unnecessary expenditure and resources or senseless decisions handed down from older years and by old-fashioned managers.

If there is something that distinguishes startups is their prudence in spending, in making decisions and in market estimates. I don’t see a boom at all.

How could the support measures made by the Government be improved for Entrepreunership?

It is necessary to finish with grants and by making things easy for entrepreneurs. Don’t give me money because if you do, I am going to become someone who works for grants.

In my opinion, instead of that, it is much more interesting to cut red tape procedures, to change the perception about business failure by dissociating personal risk from business risk, and to contribute to creating a favorable environment for private investments. The solution is more of creating this favorable environment than to bring out the hose and watering everything with money. And, of course, it’s also fundamental to improve education, but I could write pages and pages about this topic.

What book are you currently reading?

I’m reading “The new digital age”, by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen.

>>> Enrique Dans will be one of the speakers of the Knowing Final Conference which will take place on may 23 at ADEIT. Click here for more information about this free event.

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