entrepreneurship

Examples of entrepreneurship in the following topics:

• Entrepreneurship and the Economy

  • Creativity and entrepreneurship are needed to combine inputs in profitable ways, resulting in large scale economic growth/development.
  • Entrepreneurial economics is the study of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurship within the economy.
  • Human creativity and productive entrepreneurship are needed to combine these inputs in profitable ways, and hence an institutional environment that encourages free entrepreneurship becomes the ultimate determinant of economic growth.
  • If entrepreneurship remains as important to the economy as ever, then the continuing failure of mainstream economics to adequately account for entrepreneurship indicates that fundamental principles require re-evaluation.
  • Equilibrium models are central to mainstream economics, and exclude entrepreneurship.

• The Goals of Entrepreneurs

  • Entrepreneurship offers a greater possibility of achieving significant financial rewards than working for someone else.
  • In contrast, some people are attracted to entrepreneurship simply for the sake of the advantages of starting a business.
  • Entrepreneurship offers a greater possibility of achieving significant financial rewards than working for someone else.
  • Entrepreneurship creates an opportunity for a person to make a contribution.
  • Notable persons and their works in entrepreneurship history.

• Summary and references

  • Sexton, D.L. and Bowman-Upton, N.B. (1991): Entrepreneurship: Creativity and Growth.
  • His research interests include the strategic management of technology, especially in the telecommunications industry, high technology entrepreneurship, and the relationships between technology, public policy and economic development.

• Modern Trends in Social Responsibility

  • Socially responsible trends include corporate citizenship policies, social investing, sustainable accounting & social entrepreneurship.
  • Social entrepreneurship is the recognition of a social problem and the use of entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a social venture to achieve social change.
  • Social entrepreneurship practiced with a global perspective or embedded in an international context is called international social entrepreneurship.
  • Explain how the advent of socially responsible investing, sustainability accounting, and social entrepreneurship has contributed to the modernization of social responsibility

• Trends in Business Owners: Age and Gender

  • A very simple and small-scale example of how technology has made entrepreneurship potentially simplier is the rise of smartphone technology.
  • Couple this with slow economic growth due to the banking collapse in the U.S., and a high degree of the over-educated and underemployed, a great deal of people are drawn to entrepreneurship as a way of creating their future.
  • There are exciting things happening inside the world of female entrepreneurship.

• The Demographics of Modern Entrepreneurs

  • A very simple and small-scale example of how technology has made entrepreneurship potentially simpler is the rise of smartphone technology.
  • Couple this with slow economic growth due to the banking collapse in the U.S. and a high number of over-educated and underemployed people and you get a great deal of people who are drawn to entrepreneurship as a way of creating their future.
  • There are exciting things happening inside the world of female entrepreneurship.

• One more time...

  • Not long ago, I was teaching entrepreneurship and business plan writing to a group of executives at the Rotterdam School of Management.

• Key Characteristics of Entrepreneurs

  • Entrepreneurship requires extensive mental strength and determination because, as opposed to traditional occupations, there is no right or wrong path to achievement.

• About this author and acknowledgements

  • Very special thanks to the Academic Reviewer: Debbi D Brock, William and Kay Moore Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, Berea College.

• Definition and statistics

  • International comparative data can be found in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).