Entrepreneurship Module 1 PPT 1
Entrepreneurship Module 1 PPT 1
Entrepreneurship Module 1 PPT 1
• An innovator who introduces something new into the economy, a new method of
production not yet tested by the experience in the branch of manufacture
concerned, a product with which the consumers are not familiar or of new
markets hither-to unexploited and other similar innovations.
Definitions
• An agent who purchased the means of production for combination into marketable products
(French Economist Cantillon)
• "entrepreneur" comes from the French verb entreprendre, meaning "to undertake").
• JB Say while defining entrepreneur laid emphasis on bringing together of the factors of
production and the provision of continuing management as well as risk bearing.
• Joseph Schumpeter - entrepreneur is an innovator who implements change within the markets
through carrying out of new combinations.
• Knight - entrepreneurs are the bearers of uncertainty and responsible for risk premiums
in financial
More definitons
Entrepreneur •Person
Entrepreneurship •Process
Enterprise •Outcome
Characteristics
• Entrepreneurs are instrumental in initiating and sustaining socio economic development.
• Entrepreneurs discover new sources of supply of materials and markets and they
establish new and more effective forms of organizations.
• Entrepreneurs perceive new opportunities and seize them with super normal will power
and energy essential to overcome the resistance that social environment offers.
• Even though the risk of failure is always present, entrepreneurs take risks by assuming
responsibility for their actions.