The Fourth Entrepreneurship Wave

Name: The Fourth Entrepreneurship Wave
ISBN: 9787508663791

蔺雷 / 吴家喜CITIC Press2016

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The Fourth Entrepreneurship Wave is by Lin Lei and Wu Jiaxi, both PhDs in management, published by CITIC Press Group in 2016 with the subtitle "An Entrepreneurial Era Led by Comprehensive Innovation." Taking China's entrepreneurial practice since reform and opening up as its thread, the book identifies three earlier waves: grassroots entrepreneurship driven by marginal urban groups and farmers; the plunge into business by those inside the system after 1992; and internet new-economy entrepreneurship in the new century. The new upsurge marked by "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" it calls the "fourth entrepreneurship wave." The authors argue that four factors—technology, institutions, market, and capital—jointly drove this wave: new entrepreneurial carriers such as maker spaces, incubators, and crowdsourcing platforms kept emerging; business registration and administrative streamlining reforms lowered the threshold; venture capital and capital markets supplied funding; and mobile internet and smart manufacturing opened new commercial space. On this basis the book discusses the new roles of entrepreneurs, investors, government, and the public, and analyzes three main directions: disruptive business-model entrepreneurship, technology entrepreneurship, and global entrepreneurship. To the authors, entrepreneurship is not merely a means of making a living but a way of "entrepreneurial survival"; large-scale entrepreneurship can both drive employment and propel the upgrading of traditional industries, providing momentum for supply-side structural reform. The book draws on many Chinese entrepreneurial cases, combining trend judgment with conceptual exposition—popular economics reading for entrepreneurs, investors, and policy researchers. Xu Xiaoping and Mao Daqing each wrote a recommendation preface.

Editor's review

这是一本把握时代脉搏、及时回应当年创业热点的书。两位作者都有管理学博士背景：蔺雷长期研究服务创新与创业管理，吴家喜参与过科技创新战略研究与规划编制。因此，本书不是单纯的创业励志书，而是把“双创”放进改革开放以来几轮创业浪潮的历史脉络中观察，讲清技术、制度、市场、资本这四股力量如何共同推动一轮浪潮。书中的看点有三：一是提出“创业化生存”的概念，把创业从开办公司扩展为一种思维方式与生存方式；二是把创业者视为正在崛起的新阶层，重新界定投资人、政府、公众的角色；三是对商业模式创业、技术创业、全球化创业三条路径作出趋势性判断。徐小平、毛大庆作序推荐，也说明本书在创投圈有一定认可度。需要说明的是，本书出版于2016年，案例与数据止于当时，个别判断已被此后数年的市场变化修正。阅读时不妨带着“回看”的心态，把它当作理解中国“双创”时代的一份现场记录，而不是一本时效性很强的操作手册。

Who it's for

A good fit for

对“大众创业、万众创新”政策背景与来龙去脉感兴趣的读者
正在或准备创业，希望先建立宏观判断的中小创业者
从事创投、孵化器、园区运营等创业服务工作的从业者
研究产业政策、区域创新与创业生态的高校师生

Not a good fit for

想要具体操作步骤、商业计划书模板的纯工具型读者
只关注个人职业成长与职场技巧的读者
期待2020年后最新创业案例与数据的读者

Reading tips

先读作者序与第二章，抓住“四支巨桨”和“创业者是新阶层”这两个核心论点，再回头读第一章的历史梳理。
把书中2016年前后的案例与当下行业现状对照阅读，标注哪些判断仍然成立、哪些已被现实改写。
若关注政策，可重点读第三章关于供给侧改革与就业的论述，并结合近年官方统计数据加以验证。
读完可延伸阅读创业史、创投类著作，形成对中国创业生态更完整的认识。

About the publisher

CITIC Press China · Founded in 1988

Founded in 1988 and affiliated with China CITIC Group, CITIC Press focuses on business and economics, social sciences, literature and children's books, with common categories covering social sciences, finance, literature, Eastern philosophy and literary appreciation. Its library holds 91 titles, including Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens trilogy, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Wu Xiaobo's Thirty Years of Strife: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008, Nelly Sachs's The Weight of Butterflies: Selected Poems of Nelly Sachs, as well as New Interpretations of the Analects and Chiang Hsun's lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber. Its authors and translators include Lin Junhong, Ba Shusong, Chen Li and Chang Fen-ling. Overall, the press introduces influential works in finance and social sciences while balancing classic translation and local appreciation in literature and Eastern philosophy, combining academic depth with accessible reading.

Foreword I: Entrepreneurs Are a New Class (Xu Xiaoping)
Foreword II: To Those Relentless Followers of the Soul (Mao Daqing)
Author's Preface: The Entrepreneurial Age Led by All-Around Innovation
Chapter One: Entrepreneurial Civilization: A History of Entrepreneurs
Chapter Two: The Fourth Wave: Entrepreneurs Are a New Class
Chapter Three: Entrepreneurship Leads Supply-Side Reform
Chapter Four: The Era of Pan-Venture Capital

FAQ

这本书的作者是谁？

作者是蔺雷与吴家喜，两人均为管理学博士，毕业于清华大学经济管理学院。蔺雷长期研究服务创新与创业管理，吴家喜从事科技创新战略研究与规划编制工作。

“第四次创业浪潮”具体指什么？

书中指改革开放以来第四轮大规模创业热潮，即以2014年提出的“大众创业、万众创新”为标志的创业浪潮，其推动力来自技术、制度、市场、资本四个方面。

这本书是实操手册吗？

不是。本书偏重趋势分析与理念阐发，结合中国本土案例讨论创业生态和创业者角色，而非提供分步骤的创业操作指南。

书中提出的“创业化生存”是什么意思？

指把创业精神和创业方式融入日常生存状态，而不仅是注册公司当老板；个人以创造价值、承担风险的方式参与经济活动，组织也以持续创新来维持活力。

这本书内容会不会过时？

本书出版于2016年，案例和数据止于当时，部分判断已被后来的市场变化修正。它更适合作为理解中国“双创”时代的现场记录阅读。

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About the author

蔺雷 Author

Lin Lei is a Chinese author of management books, about whom limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, education, and professional career are not clearly documented. Three of his works are included in the collection, all centered on management and enterprise development: New Investment Promotion: Building New Quality Productive Forces through Industry-Generative Investment Promotion, The Rules of Turning Defeat into Victory: How Individuals Can Turn Things Around, and Leap: The Path to High-End Enterprise Upgrading through New Quality Productive Forces. As the titles suggest, his writing addresses practical issues such as industrial investment promotion, enterprise upgrading, and personal growth, combining a practice-oriented approach with methodology and aimed at managers and workplace readers. His works often revolve around the concept of "new quality productive forces," a recent hot topic in economics and management, seeking to translate macro-policy discourse into actionable analytical frameworks and recommendations, which is why they are commonly classified under management. Given the limited public information, his academic background and professional experience cannot be confirmed, and readers may look to these works to understand his writing focus and concerns.

吴家喜 Author

Wu Jiaxi is a Chinese author of finance and management books about whom limited public information is available; his nationality, education, and professional background are not recorded in the available sources. Two of his works are currently listed: The Era of Discontinuity and The Rule of Turning Defeat into Victory: How Individuals Can Turn Things Around Against the Odds, both commonly classified under finance and management. Judging from the titles and categories, his writing focuses on uncertainty amid changing times and on how individuals can adjust their strategies and stage a comeback in adversity, offering analysis and practical advice to general readers. His style tends toward the practical and readable, combining management ideas with personal-growth topics. Because verifiable information is scarce, a full assessment of his writing and influence awaits further material.