| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 100 === Today, the internet and software application has been growing around the world that developed by ICT industry. Taiwan government continued to promote technology development in hardware manufacturing and software in the mean time, many new ventures enter the ICT market place. However, new start-ups always face resource-constrained situation, and entrepreneurs need to access resources and discover new venture opportunities from their social network.
Previous research suggests that if entrepreneurs have resources that are imperfectly replicable, imitable, rare, and unique, those resources will enable firms to get sustainable competitive advantage. Baker, Miner, and Eesley (2003) emphasized the concept of “bricolage” and pointed out entrepreneur access resources for solving resources-constrained and creating new value by network bricolage.
Since network bricolage research still limited in existing literatures, this ties is follows the concept of network bricolage proposed by Baker et al. (2003) and Baker and Nelson (2005) and classified into three characteristics：making do, resources at hand, and recombination of resources for new purposes. The purpose of this study is to explore the process of ICT entrepreneurs discover new venture opportunities by bricolage , and the difference effect of entrepreneurial experience (novice or serial entrepreneur).
This study interviewed 20 entrepreneurs of ICT industry in Taiwan. Based upon Baker & Nelson (2005), to analyze the information of interviews this study uses inductive reasoning. The study found that entrepreneurs tend to use strong tie on by making do, and tend to use weak ties link network relationship. Moreover, entrepreneurs will use the mix of strong and weak ties by recombination of resources for new purposes. Furthermore, novice entrepreneurs tend to use making do but ignore discover new venture opportunities by using recombination of resources for new purposes ; in the other hand, serial entrepreneurs tend to discover new venture opportunities by examining the technique of resources at hand, and also they did well at recognizing new venture opportunities at original field by the recombination of resources for new purpose.
Finally, this study provides discussions and conclusions, and theoretical and management implications.
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