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Entrepreneurship

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The ability for individuals and companies to create and grow businesses, which is identified as a key driver of economic progress. Its suppression in China is seen as a rate-limiter on their competitiveness.


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Summary

Entrepreneurship is fundamentally the creation or extraction of economic value, often entailing significant risks beyond those typical of traditional business ventures, and sometimes encompassing non-economic values. An entrepreneur is an individual who initiates and/or invests in businesses, bearing the majority of the risks while aiming for substantial rewards. This process is widely recognized as a source of innovation, introducing new ideas, goods, services, and business methodologies. Economically, entrepreneurship involves translating inventions or technologies into viable products and services, a process undertaken by both established firms and new businesses. Despite its potential, entrepreneurship is inherently risky, with a significant number of startups failing due to factors such as insufficient funding, poor strategic decisions, adverse government policies, economic downturns, or inadequate market demand. In a geopolitical context, entrepreneurship is a point of contention, particularly in the rivalry between the US and China, where China's model of state-sponsored corporatism and its suppression of entrepreneurial spirit, as exemplified by the case of Jack Ma, are seen as potential long-term weaknesses when contrasted with the importance of the rule of law.

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Extracted Attributes
  • Types

    Small business entrepreneurship, scalable startup entrepreneurship, large company entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship.

  • Definition

    The creation or extraction of economic value, often involving risks beyond those typically encountered in starting a business and potentially encompassing non-economic values.

  • Economic Role

    Integral to production, combining land/natural resources, labor, and capital to manufacture goods or provide services.

  • Origin of Term

    Derived from the French word 'entreprendre,' meaning to undertake or start a business venture.

  • Economic Definition

    An entity with the ability to translate inventions or technologies into products and services.

  • Key Characteristics

    Innovation, risk-taking, resilience, problem-solving abilities, vision, dedication, focus, agility, careful planning.

  • Startup Success Rate

    Approximately 50% of startups last five years, and 25% survive fifteen years.

  • Alternative Definition

    The process of designing, launching, and running a new business.

  • Common Causes of Failure

    Lack of funding, bad business decisions, government policies, economic crisis, lack of market demand.

Timeline
  • A comprehensive discussion on the All-In Podcast highlighted the geopolitical dimension of the AI race, framing China's state-sponsored corporatism and the CCP's suppression of entrepreneurship, exemplified by Jack Ma, as a potential long-term weakness contrasted with the importance of the Rule of Law. (Note: Date is a placeholder for contemporary discussion as no specific podcast date was provided.) (Source: Document 4b1c9435-cba0-4c58-b5e6-858844a54e5c)

    2023-10-26

Entrepreneurship

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. An entrepreneur (French: [ɑ̃tʁəpʁənœʁ]) is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. The process of setting up a business is known as "entrepreneurship". The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures. More narrow definitions have described entrepreneurship as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, often similar to a small business, or (per Business Dictionary) as the "capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit". The people who create these businesses are often referred to as "entrepreneurs". In the field of economics, the term entrepreneur is used for an entity that has the ability to translate inventions or technologies into products and services. In this sense, entrepreneurship describes activities on the part of both established firms and new businesses.

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Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values than simply economic ones. An entrepreneur is an individual who creates and/or invests in one or more businesses, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. The process of setting up a business is known as entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and business/or procedures. More narrow definitions have described entrepreneurship as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often similar to a small business, or as the "capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit." The people who create these businesses are often referred to as entrepreneurs. While definitions of entrepreneurship typically focus on the launching and running of businesses, due to the high risks involved in launching a start-up, a significant proportion of start-up businesses have to close due to "lack of funding, bad business decisions, government policies, an economic crisis, lack of market demand, or a combination of all of these." In the field of economics, the term entrepreneur is used for an entity which has the ability to translate inventions or technologies into products and services. In this sense, entrepreneurship describes activities on the part of both established firms and new businesses.

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Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Shantipura Main Road, Electronics City Phase 2 (East), Electronic City, Bangalore South, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, 560100, India

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