The Lean Startup movement fundamentally changed entrepreneurial education and the way new ventures evolve. While Steve Blank and other founders of the movement embraced academic ideas, the movement grew among practitioners largely disconnected from academic entrepreneurship research. The purposes of this special issue are (1) to better connect Lean Startup practice to academic entrepreneurship research and (2) to advance theory regarding Lean Startup practices and their outcomes. After a brief and personal story of Lean Startup’s beginnings by its founder, Steve Blank, the first set of papers in this special issue juxtapose Lean Startup with alternative approaches to new venture creation developed by scholars outside the influence of the Lean Startup movement. The second set of papers describe how Lean Startup might be contextualized for different unique situations. The third set dives into different Lean Startup practices to help researchers and practitioners think more deeply about decisions and trade-offs made during implementation of Lean Startup.

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将精益创业和新创企业的替代方法结合起来：推出特刊


精益创业运动从根本上改变了创业教育和新企业的发展方式。虽然史蒂夫·布兰克和该运动的其他创始人拥护学术思想，但该运动在很大程度上与学术创业研究脱节的从业者中发展起来。本期特刊的目的是（1）更好地将精益创业实践与学术创业研究联系起来；（2）推进有关精益创业实践及其成果的理论。在其创始人 Steve Blank 讲述了精益创业的起源的简短个人故事之后，本期特刊中的第一组论文将精益创业与精益创业运动影响之外的学者开发的新企业创建的替代方法并列。第二组论文描述了精益创业如何针对不同的独特情况进行具体化。第三组深入探讨了不同的精益创业实践，以帮助研究人员和从业者更深入地思考精益创业实施过程中所做的决策和权衡。