This document is a module on technopreneurship and entrepreneurship from the University of Southern Mindanao. It discusses the foundations of entrepreneurship including defining technopreneurship and entrepreneurship, examining potential entrepreneurial personality traits, and describing the entrepreneurial profile. The module aims to help students understand key concepts around entrepreneurship and what common characteristics successful entrepreneurs tend to share.
This document is a module on technopreneurship and entrepreneurship from the University of Southern Mindanao. It discusses the foundations of entrepreneurship including defining technopreneurship and entrepreneurship, examining potential entrepreneurial personality traits, and describing the entrepreneurial profile. The module aims to help students understand key concepts around entrepreneurship and what common characteristics successful entrepreneurs tend to share.
This document is a module on technopreneurship and entrepreneurship from the University of Southern Mindanao. It discusses the foundations of entrepreneurship including defining technopreneurship and entrepreneurship, examining potential entrepreneurial personality traits, and describing the entrepreneurial profile. The module aims to help students understand key concepts around entrepreneurship and what common characteristics successful entrepreneurs tend to share.
This document is a module on technopreneurship and entrepreneurship from the University of Southern Mindanao. It discusses the foundations of entrepreneurship including defining technopreneurship and entrepreneurship, examining potential entrepreneurial personality traits, and describing the entrepreneurial profile. The module aims to help students understand key concepts around entrepreneurship and what common characteristics successful entrepreneurs tend to share.
Technopreneurship ES 223 Module 1 Module 1: The Foundations of Entrepreneurship • Introduction to Technopreneurship and Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurial profile • Potential drawbacks of Entrepreneurship • Cultural diversity of Entrepreneurship • How an entrepreneur can avoid becoming another failure statistic
The Foundations of Entrepreneurship 2
Lecture 2: Entrepreneurial profile
ILO 2: By the end of the learning experience,
students must be able to:
✓Describe the entrepreneurial profile
Entrepreneurial profile 3 What is Entrepreneurial profile? Profile – biographical sketch - where socio-economic factors were considered such as: 1. Age 2. Sex 3. Income 4. Qualifications background 5. Type of education
Entrepreneurial profile 4 6. Experience 7. Caste 8. Religion 9. Family Background 10. Socio-economic features of family 11. Family environment 12. Family participation
Entrepreneurial personality 6 Entrepreneurial Personality 1. Desire for responsibility. - prefer to be in control of their resources, and they use those resources to achieve self- determined goals 2. Preference for moderate risk - Entrepreneurs are not wild risk takers but are instead calculated risk takers and see the situation from a different perspective and believe that their goals are realistic and attainable Entrepreneurial personality 7 3. Self-reliance - entrepreneurs demonstrate a high level of self-reliance and do not shy away from the responsibility for making their businesses succeed 4. Confidence in their ability to succeed - Entrepreneurs typically have an abundance of confidence in their ability to succeed and are confident that they chose the correct career path. Entrepreneurial personality 8 5. Determination - also called “grit”, the ability to focus intently on achieving a singular, long-term goal.
6. Desire for immediate feedback
- The feedback they receive from their businesses drives them to set higher standards of performance for their companies and themselves Entrepreneurial personality 9 7. High level of energy - Entrepreneurs are more energetic than the average person. That energy may be a critical factor given the incredible effort required to launch a start-up company 8. Future Orientation - Entrepreneurs are not satisfied to sit back and revel in their success, real entrepreneurs stay focused on the future
Entrepreneurial personality 10 9. Skill at organizing - Entrepreneurs know how to put the right people together to accomplish a task.
10. Value of achievement over money
- money is simply a way of “keeping score” of accomplishments—a symbol of achievement
Entrepreneurial personality 11 Most Important Qualities of an Entrepreneur
Source: Nature or Nurture: Decoding the DNA of the Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurial profile 12 Online Group Exercise 1
Analyze and identify what type of entrepreneurial
personality the following exercise has and explain why.
Entrepreneurial personality 13 Case No. 1
Entrepreneurial personality 14 Case No. 2
Entrepreneurial personality 15 Case No. 3
Entrepreneurial personality 16 Online Group Exercise 1
What conclusion can we draw from the
cases/research conducted on the entrepreneurial personality?
Entrepreneurial Personality 17 Summary ILO 1: Define Entrepreneurship vs Technopreneurship
• Entrepreneurship is the development of a business
from the ground up — coming up with an idea and turning it into a profitable business.
• Technopreneurship is not a product but a process of
synthesis in engineering the future of a person, an organization, a nation and the world. Introduction to Technopreneurship and Entrepreneurship 18 Summary ILO 2: Describe the entrepreneurial profile Entrepreneurs have some common characteristics, including a desire for responsibility, a preference for moderate risk, confidence in their ability to succeed, desire for immediate feedback, a high energy level, a future orientation, skill at organizing, and a value of achievement over money. In a phrase, they are tenacious high achievers.
Entrepreneurial profile 19 End of Topic
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