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Entrepreneurship

Getting Started

Top databases for Entrepreneurship

Literature on Entrepreneurship

Literature on Entrepreneurship

• Books & Articles on Entrepreneurship:
Discovery. Books & Articles on Entrepreneurship available at the IESE Library.
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• News on Entrepreneurship:
Factiva

Ft.com Entrepreneurship

WEF Strategic Intelligence. Entrepreneurship

• Top Entrepreneur Journals & Magazines:
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Fast Company
Forbes Entrepreneurs
Harvard Business Review
Inc.com
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
Journal of Business Venturing
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Strategic Management Journal
Techcrunch

IESE & Entrepreneurship

Business Planning

Business Planning

Books on Business Planning available at IESE Library.
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Statista. Business Plan Export
Create your business plan in 3 steps. The Business Plan Export helps you to model markets.

• Free resources:
BPlans

US Small Business Administration. Write your Business Plan.

Legal Issues. Templates and Forms.

Legal Issues. Templates and Forms.

• Europe
EC. Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

EC. EUGO. Points of Single Contact (PSCs)
PSCs are e-government portals that allow service providers to get the information they need and complete administrative procedures online.

EC. Your Europe Business Portal
Practical Guide to Doing Business in Europe.

• Spain
ACCIÓ. Agency for Business Competitiveness

Gobierno de España. National Entrepreneurship Office

• USA
USA. National Venture Capital Association: Model Documents

USA. UpCounsel Legal Documents

Understand the Market

Understand the Market

• Market & Industry Databases:

Database for global company, industry, country and city research.

Global market research database providing insight on industries, economies and consumers worldwide.

Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle. Find Market reports on VC, PE, and M&A from Pitchbook.

(For desktop application or web access please email library@iese.edu)
Financial information service, including market data, news, analytics and trading tools. Also investment banking reports, country and economic data.

Immediate access to over one million statistics and facts.

Market research and analysis on information technology, with an emphasis on enterprise level decision makers.
 

• Company Databases:

Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people.

Global database with information on the Very large and Large companies worldwide (public and private).

Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle.

(For desktop application or web access please email library@iese.edu)
Financial information service, including market data, news, analytics and trading tools.

Accounts and contacts for 2,500,000+ public and private Spanish companies.

Search Funds

Search Funds

IESE Business Angels Network
A network for investors & entrepreneurs.

Finaves Venture Capital Fund
Financing IESE alumni startups.

EC. Access to EU Finance

Invest Europe

• VC/PE Literature

Books on Private Equity and Venture Capital.
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• News on VC/PE:
Pitchbook. The Daily Pitch: VC, PE and M&A

Bloomberg (Available only from the Barcelona Library)
Launch PE<GO> for a menu of private equity screening and industry dashboard functions.

• Overview & Analysis:
International Search Funds 2022: Selected Observations
IESE Business School in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business report.

Venture Capital & Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index
Created from a research project at the IESE Business School.

Pitchbook
Market Reports on VC, PEC and M&A.

National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Yearbook
Documents trends and analysis of venture capital activity in the United States.

American Investment Council
Investment trends in US.

Bain & Co. Global Private Equity Report

Ernst & Young Private Equity Survey

McKinsey’s Private Markets Annual Review

Private Equity International

Policies & Indicators

Patents & Technology Transfer

Patents & Technology Transfer

Orbis Intellectual Property is a full-text patent database of private and public companies around the world, comprising 142 million patents and patent applications.

• Technology Transfer Organizations:
National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer
Non-profit Organization that focuses on improving the commercialization of academic Research.

Association of University Technology Managers

• Free Patent resources:
Google Patents

Espacenet European Patent Office patent search tool

The Lens Institutional Toolkit

USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office patent search

Corporate Innovation

Corporate Innovation

Discovery. Books & Articles on Corporate Innovation, Internal Entrepreneurs.
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IESE Open Innovation and Corporate Venturing Institute

Entreprenerial Associations & Events

Entrepreneurship Portals

Entrepreneurship Reports, Trends, Research & Analysis