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INTERMEDIATION
Opportunity
discovery
•Entrepreneur
as an inventor
Opportunity
validation
•Entrepreneur
as an
experimentor
Opportunity
exploitation
•Entrepreneur
as a founder
Opportunity
growth
•Entrepreneur
as a manager
Types of Intermediaries
Incubators, Accelerators, Investors, Banks, Business development
support agencies , R&D centers, Research councils, universities,
technical colleges