---- Sincere apologies for cross-posting ----
Netters,
Along with a few colleagues, I am studying empirically how entrepreneurs
recognize (or don´t) good opportunities, and how they may differ from
non-entrepreneurs performing that and other tasks.
Our empirical challenge now is to find simple ways to represent visually
these opportunities without calling for specialized knowledge and with an
a-priori agreement on what the best opportunity is. This would be analogous
to ask people to select the largest number, and show them two numbers and
see if they pick the right one. Our opportunities do not have to be
business opportunities, but we would prefer if they were.
For empirical reasons, we can use numbers, images, and symbols, but no text
and no information that requires prior knowledge of the opportunity or
specialized knowledge of other kinds (MBA, financial skills, etc).
If you have experience with this or analogous situations, we would be very
happy to hear your experience. Please email me (not the whole list unless
you feel it is relevant for everybody), and I will summarize the results and
post to the list.
Thanks in advance!
Pablo MARTIN de HOLAN
pmdeh@incae.edu