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The Importance of Entrepreneurship in Company

http://ladiesonthetour.sites.gettysburg.edu/entrepreneur/simon-arias Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, starting and running a new company, which is often initially a little company. The men and women who create these businesses are called entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship was described as the "capacity and willingness to grow, organize and manage a business enterprise alongside some of its dangers in order to create a profit". While definitions of entrepreneurship normally focus on the start and running of companies, because of the large risks involved with establishing a start-up, a significant percentage of start-up businesses have to close because of "lack of financing, poor business decisions, an economic crisis, lack of market demand--or even a mixture of all of them. Entrepreneurship is the action of becoming an entrepreneur, or even "an operator or director of a business enterprise who makes money through danger and initiative". Entrepreneurs act as supervisors and oversee the launch and growth of an enterprise. Entrepreneurship is the process by which an individual or a staff defines a business opportunity and acquires and deploys the necessary resources required for its manipulation. Early 19th century French economist Jean-Baptiste Say provided a broad definition of entrepreneurship, saying that it "shifts economic resources from an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater return". Entrepreneurs create something new, something different-they change or transmute values. Regardless of the firm size, big or small, they can partake in entrepreneurship opportunities. Four standards are required by the chance to become an entrepreneur. First, there needs to be opportunities or scenarios to recombine tools to create profit. Second, entrepreneurship requires differences between individuals, such as accessibility to specific individuals or the capability to recognize details about opportunities. Third, taking on risk is quite necessary. The entrepreneurial process demands the organization of people and resources. The entrepreneur is a element in microeconomics and also the study of entrepreneurship reaches back into the job of Richard Cantillon and Adam Smith in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. However, entrepreneurship was mostly ignored theoretically until the late 19th and early 20th centuries and empirically before a deep resurgence in economics and business since the late 1970s.


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