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technoprenuer  is an entrepreneur who is technology savvy, creative, innovative, dynamic, dares to be

different and take the unexplored path, and very passionate about their work. They take challenges and
strive to lead their life with greater success. They don't fear to fail. They take failure as a learning
experience, a stimulator to look things differently and stride for next challenge. Technoprenuers
continuously go through an organic process of continual improvement and always try to redefine the
dynamic digital economy.

Technology and entrepreneurial skills are driving many economies to prosperity. The most famous of
them all is, Bill Gates, who makes Microsoft a household name all over the world. Steve Jobs - well
known for his innovations. iPod - most carried gadget by young population. Look at the success
of Google - brain child of Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Who don't know Google? 

Technopreneurship is not a product but a process of synthesis in engineering the future of a person, an
organization, a nation and the world. In a digital, knowledge based society, strategic directions or
decision-making processes will be demanding and complex. This requires tertiary level and professional
development programs and training to produce strategic thinkers who will have the skills to succeed in a
dynamically changing global environment. Traditional educational programs, however, lack the
methodology to transform today's students into creative, innovative, visionary global leaders who
understand the importance of technopreneurship. 

*High-tech and entrepreneurial skills are driving our economy back to prosperity. Technopreneursip-
merging technology prowess and entrepreneurial skills- is the real source of power in toda's knowledge-
based economy. A technopreneur distinguishes logic from tradition, tradition from prejudice, prejudice
from common sense and common sense from nonsense while integrating a variety of ideas from diverse
groups and disciplines.

Technopreneurship is not a product but a process of synthesis in engineering the future of a person, an
organization, a nation and the world. Strategic directions or decision-making processes are becoming
more demanding and complex. This requires universities, and in site professional development programs
and training to produce strategic thinkers who will have skills to succeed in a rapidly changing global
environment.

Traditional university programs, however, lack the teaching methods to turn today's students into creative,
innovative, visionary global leaders who understand the importance of technopreneurship. Recent
technological advances and global competitiveness have changed and broadened the nature of liberal
arts to embrace humans and machines. The answer is not creating new liberal arts or soft-skills courses,
but integrating them into the general technical curriculum. These changes take time. Also, what about
present and past universities' graduates? The solution is to increase in site training and development at
all levels of a corporation.

These programs should focus on what workers and professionals should be able to do. These include
functioning on multidisciplinary teams, communicating effectively, acquiring updated knowledge of
technological developments, and understanding the basic technical concepts and there new applications
and improvements.

Creativity is breaking the conventional mental blocks and playing with imagination and possibilities,
leading to new and meaningful connections and outcomes while interacting with ideas, people and the
environment. Technopreneurship is the only source of long-run sustainable competitive advantage. In an
era of man-made brainpower industries, individual, corporate, and national economic success will all
require both new and more extensive skills sets than have been required in the past . By themselves skills
don't guarantee success. They have to be put together in successful organizations. But without skills and
technopreurship there are no successful organizations.
*It’s aptly called "technopreneurship."

It’s a term coined by combining two words: technology and entrepreneurship.

A joint program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the University of the
Philippines (UP), it aims to develop a new breed of bright technologists and scientists with best business
skills in town.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the implementation of the program was signed recently by
DOST assistant secretary Ma. Lourdes Orijola and UP Institute of Small-Scale Industries (ISSI) executive
director Ruperto Alonzo. Witnesses were DOST Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro and Undersecretaries
Fortunato dela Peña and Rogelio Panlasigui.

Under the MOU, DOST and UP-ISSI will conduct joint activities leading to the establishment of
technology-based enterprises such as technology business incubators, technology investment/livelihood
fora, technology matching, and linkages among industry, academe, and research and development
institutions (RDIs).

"Technopreneurship," DOST explained, points out the value-added products of knowledge and
technology to fuel small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It is a big leap strategy to entrepreneurship,
focusing on the technological edge in doing business.

"This special approach uses technological breakthroughs and inventions as knowledge capital for new
product ideas and business applications," DOST said. "It also highlights the role of SMEs and technology
transfer as a strategy to promote industries’ competitiveness in line with the Medium-Term Philippine
Development Plan and the Arroyo administration’s Ten-Point Agenda."

Along this line, DOSt and UP-ISSI will cooperate in the promotion of start-up projects, especially in
universities and colleges and even in DOST-RDIs, which could be achieved by enticing students,
professors, and teacher, even researchers, to venture into their own projects or researches by providing
any but limited to the following:
Start-up funds as tie-ups with the concerned financing institutions, schools, and private organizations.

Youth Social Technopreneurship

The WSIS Geneva Declaration of Principles states in Para. 11 that young people must be «empowered
as learners, developers, contributors, entrepreneurs and decision-makers» in the emerging Information
Society. This statement has been further strengthened by Para. 25 of the WSIS Tunis Commitment which
acknowledges that youth should «actively engage... in innovative ICT-based development programmes
and (be given) opportunities... to be involved in e-strategy processes». According to the 2005 UN World
Youth Report, young people's affinity to ICTs should be tapped creatively in advancing sustainable socio-
economic development. However, much remains to be done to concretize these statements.
Young people, especially those in developing countries, remain largely marginalized in development
policy formulation and, most importantly, in program implementation. There is a poverty of genuine
opportunities that empower youth to create digital futures at the grassroots level. Access to start-up
capital, networks and mentorship is dominantly lacking, if not non-existent, for young people based in
rural areas and poverty-stricken communities who are aspiring to become social technopreneurs.

Objectives

1. Create opportunities for Information Society policy engagement of young people, especially in the
field of social technopreneurship in the rural areas and impoverished communities of developing
countries.
 2. Build the capacities of rural, economically disadvantaged young people aspiring to become social
technopreneurs and connect them with potential financiers, mentors and networks.
3. Showcase socially-oriented technopreneurship ventures led by young people to inspire other
enterprising youth in the use of ICTs to reap social dividends.

Deliverables

From October 2006 until end of 2006, the core activities of the proposed Community of Expertise shall be
to broaden membership among youth networks and youth-serving organizations engaged and/or
interested in social technopreneurship in developing countries as well as to start developing and planning
specific Community interventions and programs for sharing to targeted Community partners and
supporters.

For 2007, the proposed Community envisions to achieve the following:

1. Expand Community membership to include donor agencies, like-minded networks, social

investors or angelic financiers, and well-known social technoprenuers.
2. Develop concrete work programs and secure seed funding especially for capacity-building and
networking workshops, and national-level policy campaigns and engagements.
3. Hold capacity-building and networking workshops for potential social technopreneurs in Asia,
Africa and Latin America.
4. Create a website (or webpage) for the Community.

For 2008 onwards, it is envisioned that, aside from continuing the initial Community work programs, multi-
year core funding shall be secured to further expand Community outreach, develop knowledge products
and deliver a high-impact action plan benefiting more potential youth social technopreneurs. It is
envisaged that in 2009 a global conference on youth social technopreneurship will be organized
celebrating the Community's achievements and lessons learned, and re-energizing the movement.

Can I really earn from technology?

Can I really earn from technology? People think nowadays about their future. They think seriously, of
course life is not a joke. But sometimes people don't know how to do it. Well in fact the things they need is
just around them. The keep on looking for money and they are looking for it badly. Sadly, they don't really
know about earning through technology. Technopreneurship, sounds weird right? But that is how it's
called.

Technopreneurship is the key to earn money through technology. The word came from 2 different words.
First, technology, and next is entrepreneurship, where it means business. People are really struggling for
survival but they don't know that the stuffs that could save them from annihilation and broke is just beside
them. Yes just beside them, they only need a computer and an internet connection. That's how amazing it
is. And worst of it lots of people don't see this stuff and have no plan for their future. So could this be? Ok,
first thing's first, There are lots of offers in the internet, ranging from advertising to affiliate business to
freelance writing and now how could you say it's impossible to do. Well, it's up with you, as many wise
people say, "whether you think you can or you think you cannot, either way you're right." There are really
lots of stuffs in the web that you could earn from. Or you would use anything that is a masterpiece of
technology. Being Technopreneur is really the things people consider now. Especially these times that we
have job inflation rate and based on statistics, here in Philippines, we have 13,000,000 people jobless.
Yes, but sad to say, it is the reality. Being aTechnoprenuer really helps this kind of situation. Why?
Because when you start a business, you could hire your fellowmen as your employees and you can give
job to them. So you help yourself to have a financial freedom and at the same time, you help other
people.
Now, do we really need to become a Technopreneur? It is your choice. Well as of now I really do earn
with this. Hope you do it to and start to have you financial freedom. Hope this helps.

PASIG CITY, METRO MANILA – The Internet was once thought of as a mere extension of companies
aiming to have a wider audience and customer base. But in the last ten years, many entrepreneurs have
put up businesses using the Internet as the main platform.

Technopreneur Dennis Mendiola said that the Internet has brought out the latent talent of business-
minded Filipinos.

Mendiola is the “Chief Imagination Officer” of Web communications firm Chikka, a company he co-
founded exactly 10 years ago with three other friends. Chikka is already a full subsidiary of mobile
telecommunications giant Smart Communications.

Mendiola said what he expects to see happening in the Philippines is more young people focusing on
technopreneurship, an amalgamation of the words technology and entrepreneurship.

He said that the Internet has enabled people to find new ways of creating innovative online products and
services. Some of these services could be public such as social networking sites, or applications that
serve the back office needs of private firms.

In particular, the behavior of Internet usage in the Philippines is slowly shifting from stationary desktop
computing to mobile. While laptops and small form factor netbooks were the norm for wireless Internet,
much smaller devices such as handheld personal digital assistants and even mobile phones with Internet
capabilities have expanded the horizon for development.

The 2010 Media Habit report by Yahoo! and Nielsen indicated that mobile Internet use had increased five
times than in 2009. The same research showed that those who have started using mobile Internet will
most likely continue using their mobile devices for online access.

Indeed, some companies are already developing mobile applications, including Mobile Arts, WolfPac
Mobile, and G-XChange, for a variety of users from regular mobile phone users to corporate.

Mendiola views that this transition of mobile Internet to handheld devices would expand the horizon for
development companies like Chikka, as well as technopreneurs who will create innovative applications for
this space.

He notes that the Apple iPad will also change the behavior of Internet users, which will also drive software
innovation.

“I think the future of what we’re seeing now is going to be on a versatile mobile device for every kind of
communication needs,” Mendiola said.
In addition, he said technopreneurs can also expand their services to overseas markets, utilizing Filipinos’
affinity with Western thinking. He said innovations made in the Philippines can be marketable for foreign
markets.

Mendiola, himself a winner of several awards as a young entrepreneur focusing on the information and
technology space, said technopreneurs’ biggest challenge is to continue innovating fast especially as they
compete for a growing market targeted by other like-minded people.

“The challenge for us now is to make sure that we remain relevant amid changing times, to avoid
obsolescence.”

Technopreneurship is the act on engaging into technoprenuer. A technopreneur is a

person who is into innovative technology venture by enhancing or by developing new tech
products and/or services. It starts from a good idea, develop this idea into an opportunity,
and then commercialize it with a good business model.

Review of the original saying, Technopreneurship term is a derivative of two words, namely ‘technology’ and

‘enterpreneurship’. In general, the word technology is used to refer to the practical application of knowledge to

the industry or as a framework of knowledge that is used to create the tools, to develop expertise and materials in

order to solve the existing problems. While Entrepreneurship word comes from the word entrepreneur refers to a

person or agency that created the business / business with courage bear the risk and uncertainty to achieve

profitability and growth with the opportunity to identify how the existing (Zimmerer & Scarborough, 2008).

If the above two words are combined, the word technology here is a refinement, because the technology in

“technopreneurship” refer to the information technology, ie technology that use Computer as a tool for

processing. Posadas (2007) defines the term technopreneurship in a wider scope, ie, as a technology entrepreneur

in the field of semiconductor technology, which includes accessories to the Personal Computer (PC). As an example

is how Steven Wozniak and Steve Job develop their hobby until they are able to sell up and 50 of the first Apple

computer, or how Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a paper that they became known as the Google search

engine. They are referred to as this is the technopreneur in this definition.

In the national discourse, the term refers to Technopreneurship more information on the utilization of technology

to the development of entrepreneurship. Unlike the first definition above, the type of entrepreneurship in

technopreneurship here is not limited in entrepreneurial information technology, but all types of business, such as
business furniture, restaurant, super market or crafts, batik and silver. The use of information technology that is

meant here is the Internet to market their products, such as in online trading (e-Commerce), the special Software

to cut production costs, or the use of web 2.0 technology as a means of advertising for entrepreneurship. In the

second, it is not clear which party can be called as a technopreneur. Here, the second will be used together.