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What is entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of value, identifying opportunities in the market, and acting accordingly with the associated risks. Entrepreneurship goes beyond starting a business and includes values and characteristics other than economic values.

What is entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of value, identifying opportunities in the market, and acting accordingly with the associated risks. Entrepreneurship goes beyond starting a business and includes values and characteristics other than economic values.

An entrepreneur is a person who starts a new business, bearing the highest risk. The process of starting a business is known as entrepreneurship. An entrepreneur is often seen as an innovator, a source of newly created value, services, business, or procedures.

Entrepreneurs and new businesses play an important role in the economies of many countries. Entrepreneurs use the skills and initiatives necessary to anticipate new needs. Entrepreneurship that has proven to be successful in managing risk is rewarded with profit, fame, and opportunities to grow the business. But on the contrary, entrepreneurship that fails often leads to great losses. Well-known entrepreneurs are Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, and Henry Ford.

Definition of entrepreneurship

Other definitions of entrepreneurship often refer to the process of designing, starting and managing a new business.

Entrepreneur types

Entrepreneurs, therefore, transform daring or less daring ideas into reality. As a result, they ensure the creation of jobs and contribute to the economy in general. There are different types of entrepreneurs. Each type tends to map out his or her path in a special way. They do so based on personality, abilities, and the environments they happen to be in. Examples of types of entrepreneurs include:

  • Innovators
  • Researchers
  • Buyers / sellers
  • Imitators

Types of entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship refers to the total process of developing, starting and managing a company. There are different ways to do this. Certain people have different visions and ambitions for their company compared to others. For some entrepreneurs, profit is less important than corporate social responsibility. To some extent, every type of entrepreneur experiences the same challenges and problems. Examples of types or categories of entrepreneurship include:

  • Small Businesses entrepreneurs
  • Large businesses entrepreneurs
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Innovative entrepreneurs
  • Researcher entrepreneurship

Characteristics of entrepreneurs

Some believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. However, everybody has some of the characteristics that successful entrepreneurs generally possess.

Generally, entrepreneurs are highly motivated. They invest a lot of time to get the company set up and often invest a lot of money. All of this is done with the knowledge that it can take months or sometimes even years to reap the benefits. Therefore people with a fear of failure or reduced self-confidence generally do not choose this path.

Another characteristic many entrepreneurs share is passion. Even though turnover and paid salaries are also good motivators, entrepreneurs are usually more driven by intrinsic motivation. They transform that passion into a vision of what they want to achieve, what they need in order to do so, and how they will get there.

Successful entrepreneurs also have the ability to translate their vision into a practical representation which attracts staff and investors.

Effective decision-making is also a quality that many entrepreneurs share. Entrepreneurs should not only possess good decision-making skills, they also need to be able to make those decisions quickly.

Social entrepreneurship

This form in which solutions are devised for social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept applies to a wide range of organisations. They can vary in goals, size, and beliefs. Social entrepreneurship is often related to the voluntary sector and is found in healthcare, poverty reduction, and community development.

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Innovation and entrepreneurship

Innovation and entrepreneurship are inextricably linked. Innovation is the tool of entrepreneurs with which change can be achieved. Entrepreneurs purposefully look for sources of innovation and for symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation.

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