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The Ideate Method: Identifying High-Potential Entrepreneurial Ideas

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| January 28, 2020
The Ideate Method by Dan Cohen, Greg Pool and Heidi Neck
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Professor of Entrepreneurship Heidi Neck and her co-authors illustrate an empirically proven method to identify problems, develop solutions, and pursue the most entrepreneurial ideas. SAGE Publications, Inc., 2020

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