According to Carl J. Schramm, Executive Director of the Kauffman
Foundation, in this book, The Entrepreneurial Initiative (2006):
"Entrepreneurship is the process in which one or more people undertake
economic risk to create a new organization that will exploit a new
technology or innovative process that generates value to others.
The entrepreneur is one who undertakes personal economic risk to crate a
new organization that will exploit a new technology or innovative
process that generates value to others."
Sincerely,
Curt
Dr. Curt DeBerg, CPA
Center for Entrepreneurship
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0011
Founder: SAGE,
http://sageglobal.org
530.898.4824 (w)
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Great question: let me try.
An entrepreneurial firm is driven and led by a founding entrepreneur
towards
a single purpose who accumulates early adopters that share the vision
and
are committed to reach next risk-reducing milestones. A firm ceases its
entrepreneurial zeal upon the founder's replacement and then becomes an
emerging firm.
Jack Savidge
jsavidge@ucsd.edu
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Manjula Salimath <
salimatm@UNT.EDU> on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at
11:29
AM +0000 wrote:
>Dear friends,
>
>I have a simple question: What is an entrepreneurial firm and how is
it
>different from other firms?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I will summarize responses and
>post to the list.
>
>Thanks,
>Manjula Salimath
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Hi Manjula,
I struggled with this for a while. I looked at definitions and often
found them hard to apply. I then tried "an entrepreneur is like a
giraffe, hard to describe but you know one when you see on." Also
unsatisfying. I now rely on the five dimensions of entrepreneurial
orientation - proactiveness, innovativeness, risk-taking, autonomy, and
competitive aggressivenes. The more proactive, the more
entrepreneurial;
the more innovative, the more entrepreneurial, etc. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Fredric Kropp
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