Entrepreneurial Egos

In a recent review of 23 studies, entrepreneurs scored significantly higher than others on conscientiousness (self-discipline and motivation) and openness to experience, and significantly lower than others on agreeableness (concern for social harmony) and neuroticism.
Milnes A, Business at Oxford Magazine:
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/newsandevents/Pages/bao.aspx

VantagePoint Capital Partners to help build influential companies

VantagePoint has been funding transformative companies and provide cutting-edge technology with the resources—whatever it takes—to commercialize big opportunities.
The magazine of Oxford's Said Business School
Once VantagePoint understands problems ... in detail, it can look for start-ups that might help to solve the problem, and make connections between multinationals and the technology entrepreneurs that can help them.

read more: 
http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/Documents/bao/BusinessatOxford_19_Autumn2011.pdf

.....And since it takes time to change the world, we stick with our companies and support them from start-up through scale-up.
http://www.vpcp.com/about_us

Opportunity Costs

...There are really only two things that you have to know about economics. As with, say, the two things about boxing: hit, don't get hit. In economics these are 1) incentives matter and 2) opportunity costs. The first of these we all intuitively grasp, the second sadly vast swathes of the country do not. And the wish is that we get the education system sufficiently sorted out so that every child does indeed understand this vital idea.

Tim Worstall, http://www.adamsmith.org/blog