Wednesday 10 October 2012

Characteristics of An Entrepreneur | Entrepreneurship Education

Entrepreneurs have many of the same character traits as leaders, similar to the early great man theories of leadership; however trait-based theories of entrepreneurship are increasingly being called into question. Entrepreneurs are often contrasted with managers and administrators who are said to be more methodical and less prone to risk-taking.

Such person-centric models of Entrepreneurship have shown to be of questionable validity, not least as many real-life entrepreneurs operate in teams rather than as single individuals. Still, a vast literature studying the entrepreneurial personality found that certain traits seem to be associated with entrepreneurs:

Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. Variations of entrepreneurship education are offered at all levels of schooling from primary or secondary schools through graduate university programs.

Entrepreneurship can provide new economic divisions and make good students for the world. So we must learn  "How to be a good Entrepreneur"

Entrepreneurship education distinctive is its focus on realization of opportunity, where management education is focused on the best way to operate existing hierarchies. Both approaches share an interest in achieving "profit" in some form (which in non-profit organizations or government can take the form of increased services or decreased cost or increased responsiveness to the customer / citizen / client).

Entrepreneurship education can be oriented towards different ways of realizing opportunities:
  • The most popular one is regular entrepreneurship: opening a new organization (e.g. starting a new business).
  • Another approach is to promote innovation or introduce new products or services or markets in existing firms. This approach is called corporate entrepreneurship or Entrepreneurship, and was made popular by author Gifford Pinch in his book of the same name. 
  • Newer research indicates that clustering is now a driving factor. Clustering occurs when a group of employees breaks off from the parent company to found a new company but continues to do business with the parent. Silicon Valley is one such cluster, grown very large.
  • A recent approach involves creating charitable organizations (or portions of existing charities) which are designed to be self-supporting in addition to doing their good works. This is usually called social entrepreneurship or social venturing. 
Even a version of public sector entrepreneurship has come into being in governments, with an increased focus on innovation and customer service. 


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