is the mindset that allows you to see opportunity everywhere.
Entrepreneurship
Carrying out of new combinations of firm organization - new products, new services, new sources of raw materials, new methods of production, new markets, new forms of organization
Schumpeter, 1934
is a catchword in this era of globalized economy. It is a foundation and catalyst for economic growth and innovation across nations.
Entrepreneurship
Having profits from bearing uncertainty and risk
Having profits from bearing uncertainty and risk (Knight, 1921
Purposely activity to initiate and develop a profit-oriented business
Cole, 1959
Uncertainty bearing… coordination of productive resources… introduction of innovations and provision of capital
Hoselitz, 1952
A kind of behavior that includes: (1) initiative-taking; (2) the organizing or reorganizing of social economic mechanisms to turn resources and situations to practical account: (3) the acceptance of risk failure
Shapero, 1975
Taking moderate risk
McClelland 1961
Decisions and judgments about the coordination of scarce resources
Casson, 1982
Creation of new organization
Gartner, 1985
Dynamic process of creating incremental wealth. This wealth is created by individuals who assume the major risks in terms of equity, time, and career commitment of providing value for some product or service
Ronstadt, 1984
The product or services itself may or may not be new or unique, but value must somehow be infused by the entrepreneur by securing and allocating the necessary skills and resources
Ronstadt, 1984
Behavior rather than personality trait. Its foundation lies in concept and theory rather than in intuition
Drucker, 1985
Process of creating something new with value by devoting the necessary time and effort; assuming the accompanying financial, psychic, and social risks and uncertainties; and receiving the resulting rewards of monetary and personal satisfaction
Hisrich & Brush, 1985
Pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled, but constrained by the founders’ previous choices and industry-related experiences
Hart, Stevenson, & Dial, 1995
Pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled
Stevenson & Grousebeck, 1989
Dynamic process of vision, change, and creation that requires an application of energy and passion toward the creation and implementation of new ideas and creative solutions
Kuratko, 2017
An activity that involves the discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities to introduce new goods and services, ways of organizing, market, processes, and raw materials through organizing efforts that previously had not existed
Shane, 2003
Conceiving an opportunity to offer new or improved goods or services, showing the initiatives to pursue that opportunity, making plans, mobilizing the resources necessary to convert the opportunity into reality
Dyck & Nuebert, 2012