Ryan Coles and Oleksandr Akymenko about healthy entrepreneurship and growing startups

🤔How harsh environment effect your business? What should underdeveloped countries do to achieve «Silicon valley» dream? How about adapting different business models in the startup ecosystem?
In this interview Ryan Coles tells us about his research about doing entrepreneurship in harsh environment, differences in Ukrainian market between 2023 and 2024 and more.

💭«For entrepreneurship to work, to increase jobs and wages broadly you have to focus on high growth tech startups but you need a rigorous ecosystem for small and medium sized business around it», - thinks Ryan.

🔸Learn about entrepreneurship with Ryan Coles, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship and the Chief Scientist at Daigle Labs at University of Connecticut, his research program explores issues related to entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, and environmentally sustainable firm growth, and Oleksandr Akymenko, director of the master’s program MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship and co-founder of Yes&Design and Platformmedia companies.

👉🏼Learn more about MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship: https://lvbs.top/2f5

Timecode:
00:00 – Intro and general context
00:41 – What Daigle Labs do and is your key focus and scientific interest points which you follow?
05:36 – Is it valid more to the underdeveloped economies or it’s very actual all around the world?
10:02 – What of your research about doing entrepreneurship in harsh environments can teach us about how Ukrainian entrepreneurs have to behave?
18:12 – What would you recommend countries with weak scientific systems to foster when they want to do something?
25:39 – What do you think having this war in Ukraine and this newly developed technologies can it have this spark of development? What is your prognosis?
30:39 – How AI revolution can help with progress of doing amazing products from Ukraine to the world?
34:02 – Why Ryan bringing more people to Ukraine and what is the instrument in class he using to share this with others?
36:18 – Few recommend to Ukrainian students to work on, to shorten this distance between the cultures?