What is Entrepreneurship?
What is meant by
entrepreneurship? The concept of entrepreneurship was first established in the
1700s, and the meaning has evolved ever since. Many simply equate it with
starting one's own business. Most economists believe it is more than that. To
some economists, the entrepreneur is one who is willing to bear the risk of a
new venture if there is a significant chance for profit. Others emphasize the
entrepreneur's role as an innovator who markets his innovation. Still other
economists say that entrepreneurs develop new goods or processes that the
market demands and are not currently being supplied. In the 20th century,
economist Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) focused on how the entrepreneur's drive
for innovation and improvement creates upheaval and change. Schumpeter viewed
entrepreneurship as a force of "creative destruction." The
entrepreneur carries out "new combinations," thereby helping render
old industries obsolete. Established ways of doing business are destroyed by
the creation of new and better ways to do them. Business expert Peter Drucker
(1909-2005) took this idea further, describing the entrepreneur as someone who
actually searches for change, responds to it, and exploits change as an
opportunity. A quick look at changes in communications – from typewriters to
personal computers to the Internet – illustrates these ideas. Most economists
today agree that entrepreneurship is a necessary ingredient for stimulating
economic growth and employment opportunities in all societies. In the
developing world, successful small businesses are the primary engines of job
creation, income growth, and poverty reduction. Therefore, government support
for entrepreneurship is a crucial strategy for economic development. As the
Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in 2003, "Policies to foster
entrepreneurship are essential to job creation and economic growth."
Government officials can provide incentives that encourage entrepreneurs to
risk attempting new ventures. Among these are laws to enforce property rights
and to encourage a competitive market system. The culture of a community also
may influence how much entrepreneurship there is within it. Different levels of
entrepreneurship may stem from cultural differences that make entrepreneurship
more or less rewarding personally. A community that accords
the highest status to those at the
top of hierarchical organizations or those with professional expertise may
discourage entrepreneurship. A culture or policy that accords high status to
the "self-made" individual is more likely to encourage
entrepreneurship. This overview is the first in a series of one-page essays
about the fundamental elements of entrepreneurship. Each paper combines the
thinking of mainstream economic theorists with examples of practices that are
common to entrepreneurship in many countries. The series attempts to answer:
Why and how do people become entrepreneurs? Why is entrepreneurship beneficial
to an economy? How can governments encourage entrepreneurship, and, with it,
economic growth?
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