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What is Entrepreneurial Activity

Chapter 10
Innovation and Social Capital in Organizational Ecosystems
Is nurtured with skills other than those acquired in the formal education system.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Essence of Sustainable, Smart, and Inclusive Economies
Ana Martins (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa), Isabel Martins (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa), and Orlando Petiz Pereira (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7721-8.ch010
Abstract
The main objective of this chapter focuses on the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation, and its effects on business sustainability. The authors reflect on the personality traits that are essential for an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is a mindset focused on identifying opportunities of economic value and translates into the pursuit of business opportunities through innovation. This perspective underlines the need to develop an individual for the globalized world; this development is the strategic key for economic and social development. The objective of this study is to explore how social capital, which is established between the entrepreneur and other economic role players, both inside and outside the organization, is a determinant for developing the entrepreneurial capacity. However, this depends on the organizational culture to focus on innovation. In this context, entrepreneurship is regarded as “entrepreneurial capital” affording the organization to enhance those skills needed to accomplish organizational sustainability.
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Chapter 21
University-Based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Evidence From Technology Transfer Policies and Infrastructure
A process of designing, launching, and running a new business that offers a product, process, or service for sale or hires. Commonly, entrepreneurs involved in an entrepreneurial activity requires support from their environment in terms of financing, advising, selling, among others.
Published in Chapter: University-Based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Evidence From Technology Transfer Policies and Infrastructure; From: Handbook of Research on Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Governance in Higher Education
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Women Entrepreneurship in Turkey as an Emerging Economy: Past, Present, and Future
A dynamic process of an entrepreneur, in the quest of generating value through exploration/exploitation of products, processes, or markets.
Published in Chapter: Women Entrepreneurship in Turkey as an Emerging Economy: Past, Present, and Future; From: Women Entrepreneurs and Strategic Decision Making in the Global Economy
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Chapter 14
Building an Analytics Culture to Boost a Data-Driven Entrepreneur's Business Model
Entrepreneurial activity, as an output of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, is considered the process by which individuals create opportunities for innovation. This innovation will eventually lead to a new value in society and this is, therefore, the ultimate outcome of an entrepreneurial ecosystem while entrepreneurial activity is a more intermediary output of the system. This entrepreneurial activity has many manifestations, such as innovative start-ups, high-growth start-ups, and entrepreneurial employees.
Published in Chapter: Building an Analytics Culture to Boost a Data-Driven Entrepreneur's Business Model; From: Managerial Perspectives on Intelligent Big Data Analytics
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Chapter 1
Is Entrepreneurship a Bio-Social Phenomenon?: The Role of Non-Cognitive Skills and Education
It is the human action aimed at generating added value through creativity, innovation and identification of opportunities. It implies the exploitation of new ideas as well as to plan and to manage projects in order to create value and to achieve the desired goals.
Published in Chapter: Is Entrepreneurship a Bio-Social Phenomenon?: The Role of Non-Cognitive Skills and Education; From: Handbook of Research on Nascent Entrepreneurship and Creating New Ventures
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Chapter 7
Entrepreneurship and Big Data
Entrepreneurial activity, as an output of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, is considered the process by which individuals create opportunities for innovation. This innovation will eventually lead to a new value in society and this is, therefore, the ultimate outcome of an entrepreneurial ecosystem while entrepreneurial activity is a more intermediary output of the system. This entrepreneurial activity has many manifestations, such as innovative start-ups, high-growth start-ups, and entrepreneurial employees.
Published in Chapter: Entrepreneurship and Big Data; From: Big Data Analytics for Entrepreneurial Success
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Chapter 11
Lifestyle Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Approach to the Entrepreneurial Activity
It is the human action aimed at generating added value through creativity, innovation and identification of opportunities. It implies the exploitation of new ideas as well as to plan and to manage projects in order to create value and to achieve the desired goals.
Published in Chapter: Lifestyle Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Approach to the Entrepreneurial Activity; From: Handbook of Research on Approaches to Alternative Entrepreneurship Opportunities
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Tapping Rural Women Entrepreneurship Through Self-Help Micro-Credit: Evidence and Lessons From Jammu and Kashmir, India
Entrepreneurial activity is differentiated from the relatively static management. It is concerned with the process of change, emergence, and creation of business activities. Entrepreneurial activities occur within a business context, which is impacted by economic, political, legal, social, cultural, social, and natural settings. In undertaking such entrepreneurial activities, the entrepreneur is endeavoring to create value. Entrepreneurial activity is different from ordinary business activity. Entrepreneurial activities do not limit to new markets or new products alone, but also includes new processes, planned or intended. Entrepreneurial activity includes the entry of new markets, the creation of new products or services, and/or the innovation associated with different business activities. Entrepreneurial activity can therefore be associated with organic as well as acquisitive decisions.
Published in Chapter: Tapping Rural Women Entrepreneurship Through Self-Help Micro-Credit: Evidence and Lessons From Jammu and Kashmir, India; From: Women Entrepreneurs and Strategic Decision Making in the Global Economy
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Chapter 5
Leveraging Entrepreneurial Ambition Through Innovative Technologies and Knowledge Transfer Within a National Defense Technological and Industrial Base
An activity that is conceptually related to creative, innovative, and disruptive action conducted towards the creation of new business formation and other activities of social and economic value.
Published in Chapter: Leveraging Entrepreneurial Ambition Through Innovative Technologies and Knowledge Transfer Within a National Defense Technological and Industrial Base; From: Handbook of Research on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and ICTs
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Chapter 22
An Empirical Analysis of the Algerian Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Algeria
Entrepreneurial activity, as an output of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, is considered the process by which individuals create opportunities for innovation. This innovation will eventually lead to a new value in society, and this is, therefore, the ultimate outcome of an entrepreneurial ecosystem while entrepreneurial activity is a more intermediary output of the system. This entrepreneurial activity has many manifestations, such as innovative start-ups, high-growth start-ups, and entrepreneurial employees.
Published in Chapter: An Empirical Analysis of the Algerian Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Algeria; From: Handbook of Research on Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Governance in Higher Education
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Chapter 1
Value Creation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Feedback Effects
The life cycle of entrepreneurial ventures (nascent, new business, established business, discontinuation) and their impact (high growth, innovation, internationalization) ( GEM, 2017 ).
Published in Chapter: Value Creation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Feedback Effects; From: Analyzing the Relationship Between Innovation, Value Creation, and Entrepreneurship
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