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Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths is a 2013 book written by Mariana Mazzucato which argues that the United States' economic success is a result of public and state-funded investments in innovation and technology, rather than a result of the small state, free market doctrine that often receives credit for the country's strong economy.
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.
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 ...
Drawing from examples from around the world, the article proposes that entrepreneurs are most successful when they have access to the human, financial and professional resources they need, and operate in an environment in which government policies encourage and safeguard entrepreneurs. This network is described as the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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 ]
GES 2016. The Global Entrepreneurship Summit is an annual event organized by the federal government of the United States, in partnership with foreign government hosts.The summit originated from an event organized by the Obama Administration called the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, [1] which was held in April 2010 in Washington, D.C.
Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Summit Town Hall participants with speaker Ari Alexander. In his "A New Beginning" speech on June 4, 2009, at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt, President of the United States Barack Obama announced, "I will host a Summit on Entrepreneurship this year to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social ...