Module 10 Flashcards
“Entrepreneurs adopt the ways of the adept and adapt to a changing environment. Actually, entrepreneurs are
more entrepreneurs, because they are forever entering into new territory.”
Jarod Kintz
“Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and
society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society—and especially in the economy—as doing something different
rather than doing better what is already being done.
Peter Drucker
a set of interconnected entrepreneurial actors, entrepreneurial
organizations, institutions and entrepreneurial processes which
formally and informally coalesce to connect,
mediate and govern the performance within the
local entrepreneurial environment.
Entreprenurial Ecosystem
Viewed as a complex adaptive system that can
be compared to a natural ecosystem, like a forest.
Entreprenurial Ecosystem
includes a company’s
activities that are independent of other companies
internal ecosystem
includes all of the
other actors that the company is dependent upon
in some way.
external ecosystem
occurs when something more substantial
happens.
Parameter change
the change from the first state to a new and very
different one.
Bifurcation
a form of entrepreneurship that occurs within
existing organizations
Intrapreneurship
According to ____ Intrapreneurs are generally considered to be
“significantly more risk-averse than entrepreneurs,
earn lower incomes, perceive less business
opportunities in the short term and do not consider
that they have enough skills to succeed in setting
up a business
Martiarena, 2013
a corporate executive who
develops new enterprises within the corporation”;
however some might consider some employees
who are not corporate executives to also be
intrapreneurs if they demonstrate entrepreneurial
behaviour within the company they work for.
Intrapreneur
involves employing the principles of
entrepreneurship to create organizations that
address social issues.
Social entrepreneurship
is an individual who targets
an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes
the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a
segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this
situation his or her inspiration, direct action,
creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for
and ultimately affects the establishment of a new
stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit
for the targeted group and society at large.
Social entrepreneur
Martin and Osberg (2007)
All those who design and run social businesses are
social entrepreneurs – but NOT ALL social
entrepreneurs are engaged in social businesses
Lynch & Walls, 2009
“Social entrepreneurs“ use their skills not only to
create profitable business ventures, but also to
achieve social and environmental goals for the
common good.”
Zimmerer & Scarborough, 2008