Lesson 1 Entrepreneurship Flashcards
the act of creating a business or businesses while building and scaling it to generate a profit.
Entrepreneurship
An important driver of economic growth and innovation
Entrepreneurship
concrete manifestations of entrepreneurship.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
means “to undertake”
“ENTREPRENDRE”
enterprise is created by
an entrepreneur.
Having profits from bearing uncertainty and risk.
Knight (1921)
Carrying out of new combinations of firm organization
Schumpeter (1934)
Uncertainty bearing coordination of productive resources.
Hoselitz (1952):
Purposeful activity to initiate and develop a profit-oriented business
Cole (1959)
A kind of behavior that includes: (1) Initiative taking, (2) the organizing and reorganizing of social economic mechanism
Shapero (1975)
Decisions and judgements about the coordination of scarce resources
Casson (1982)
Dynamic process of creating incremental wealth
Ronstadt (1984)
Behavior rather than personality trait
Drucker (1985)
Process of creating something new with value by devoting the necessary time and effort
Hisrich & Brush (1985)
Pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.
Stevenson & Grousebeck (1989)
constrained by the founder’s previous choices and industry related experience
Hart, Stevenson, and Dial (1995)
An activity that involves the discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities
Shane (2003)
Dynamic process of vision, change, and creation
Kuratko (2009)
Conceiving an opportunity to offer new or improved goods or services
Dyck and Neubert (2012)
one of the friendliest countries for entrepreneurs in the world.
UNITED STATES
manufacture different products that range from toys, gadgets and electronics, and cars.
CHINA
a small country that controls a significant portion of the economy in Asia.
SINGAPORE
exploring opportunities over the internet
CANADA
a foundation and catalyst for economic growth and innovation across nations.
Entrepreneurship