Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Date Added: April 08, 2010 04:30:41 PM
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In the current scenario of severe economic crisis, everyone is craving to save some extra bonus cash. Low price is the requirement of almost every customer and client. In such circumstances “$200 Asus EeePC laptop” is one of the best solutions both if you are looking for user friendly alternatives and reliability. World has experienced couple of economic shrinks in the past, but this modal has the capacity to bounce back and furthermore to create a stage for new generations. Experts are of the opinion that such global recessions compel people to work and think more effectively, as in good times one can be a little lenient and careless but during the crisis one if more focused in both his thoughts and actions. (Brad Stone and Ashlee Vance $200 Laptops Break a Business Model; January 26, 2009, New York Times).

 

Microsoft franchise saw a downfall after ruling for about two decades. It was due to the popularity of the free operating system Linux that was installed on many net books. Similarly Intel also suffered setback. On the other hand low cost devices like net books, virtualizations and other software devices gained a lot of popularity. People rapidly started shifting to low cost alternatives like Skype instead of landline telephones, online watching TV instead of paying for cable operators and net books instead of desktop Computers or laptops. Costly desktop computers remained no more popular. Meanwhile net books arose as one of the largest shipment entity despite of the world economic recession.

 

We see that entrepreneurship and innovation plays a vital role in shaping the changes in the economic canvas. Small and new firms do have their part in shaping the economy of any country. Economies are driven by ‘innovations’. (Niels BosMa, Erkko Autio, Jonathan Levie. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report 2008: GEM National Team Reports) Entrepreneurship being complex phenomena highly depends on the individuals participating in entrepreneurial process, where customers always hoping to save money and search for different choices and alternatives in the tough competitive environment. In these conditions owners of the companies like Intel, Linux, Microsoft, MySQL are fully aware of the fact that the coming era is of ‘net books’ and mobile internet, and “$200 Asus EeePC laptop” is one of the best available options to make use of.