entrepreneurship
(noun)
The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
Examples of entrepreneurship in the following topics:
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Social Entrepreneurship
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Diversity and Entrepreneurship
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship relates to the pursuit of risky and innovative business ventures to capture new opportunities.
- The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is starting a new business (referred as a startup company).
- Concepts of entrepreneurship as a specific mindset have emerged, resulting in initiatives like social entrepreneurship, political entrepreneurship, and knowledge entrepreneurship.
- Entrepreneurship employs what Schumpeter called the gale of creative destruction.
- Define entrepreneurship within the context of standard activities and organizational support
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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.
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Sustainability Innovation
- Sustainopreneurship is entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability.
- The first is oriented towards "why" - a company's purpose and motive in adopting sustainable entrepreneurship.
- Entrepreneurship consciously sets out to find or create innovations to solve sustainability-related problems.
- Solving sustainability-related problems from the organizational frame is the be-all and end-all of sustainability entrepreneurship.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Defining Intrapreneurship
- It also incorporates the reward and motivational techniques that are traditionally thought of as being the sole province of entrepreneurship.
- Capturing a little of the dynamic nature of entrepreneurial management (trying things until successful, learning from failures, attempting to conserve resources, and so on) adds to the innovation potential of an otherwise static organization without exposing those employees to the risks or accountability normally associated with entrepreneurship.
- In reality, entrepreneurship is often much easier to discuss in a classroom than to integrate into an actual organization.
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A Growing Society
- Hard work and entrepreneurship characterized the region as the Puritans and Yankees endorsed the "Protestant Ethic," which enjoined men to work hard as part of their divine calling.
- In the towns and cities, there was strong entrepreneurship, and a steady increase in the specialization of labor.