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William Drayton (born 1943) is an American social entrepreneur.Drayton was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders in 2005. [1] He is responsible for the rise of the phrase "social entrepreneur", [2] a concept first found in print in 1972.
Their comprehensive and thoughtful book offers a great single source for understanding the amazing variety of social entrepreneurs throughout the world." [ 3 ] The Stanford Social Innovation and Review wrote that The Power of Unreasonable People, “should be on the shortlist of required reading on social entrepreneurship.” [ 4 ]
While the loan from French of the English-language word "entrepreneur" dates to 1762, [35] the word "entrepreneurism" dates from 1902 [36] and the term "entrepreneurship" also first appeared in 1902. [37] According to Schumpeter, an entrepreneur is willing and able to convert a new idea or invention into a successful innovation. [38]
Let’s make 2023 our year! While to some that may seem like a fanciful notion, to a select group of young entrepreneurs, this is less a pithy statement and more of a battle cry. It’s the one ...
The private sector, as the chief engine of economic activity on the planet, and a major source for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, must be involved in trying to achieve sustainability." Sustainopreneurship is a candidate to be the accentuating factor to give even more leverage to forces emerging from world of business activities to ...
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses is a book by Eric Ries published in 2011 which describes his proposed lean startup strategy for startup companies.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research project is an annual assessment of the national level of entrepreneurial activity in multiple, diverse countries. Today the study counts the participation of 115 countries and with longitudinal data dating back more than 20 years.
Baumol has argued that entrepreneurship can be either productive or unproductive. [15] Unproductive entrepreneurs may pursue economic rents or crime. Societies differ significantly in how they allocate entrepreneurial activities between the two forms of entrepreneurship, depending on the 'rules of the game' such as the laws in each society.