An ideal text for undergraduate and MBA entrepreneurship courses in
business, engineering and the social sciences. 'Deftly written,
superbly presented, and highly recommended for community and
academic library business studies collections, Entrepreneurship is
ideal for use as a classroom textbook or as a primer for
non-specialist general readers with an interest in
entrepreneurship.' - The Midwest Book Review The early years of the
21st Century could well be called the 'decade(s) of the
entrepreneur'. Entrepreneurship is an often-featured topic in
magazine and newspaper articles, popular television shows and major
films. Universities have added courses, departments, and even
schools of entrepreneurship to their catalogs, and governments at
all levels are competing to develop programs to encourage
entrepreneurship. A key reason behind this growing interest is the
widely held belief - supported by economic data - that
entrepreneurship is a powerful engine of economic growth. By
presenting accurate knowledge about entrepreneurship itself, this
book serves to convert the rising tide of interest in
entrepreneurship into advice and guidance that can actually assist
entrepreneurs in achieving their goals. In order to do so, this
book presents evidence-based information concerning the factors
that encourage entrepreneurship's emergence, including the
conditions that shape its outcomes and how it unfolds as a process.
This text draws on two key sources of knowledge - input from
entrepreneurs and the findings of systematic empirical research. As
the subtitle suggests, however, emphasis is placed on the latter
whenever possible because the information individual entrepreneurs
possess cannot readily serve as the basis for general principles or
guidelines since it is unique to each entrepreneur. By combining
evidence-based knowledge with the hard-earned wisdom of experienced
entrepreneurs, this volume offers a balanced and inclusive guide
useful to both current and aspiring entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship
is indeed a driving force of economic growth. But beyond that, it
is also a key mechanism through which human creativity, ingenuity,
skill, and energy are converted into tangible outcomes that can,
and often do, change the world in ways that enhance and enrich
human welfare. This volume will be of particular interest to
students of entrepreneurship in a broad array of fields ranging
from business and management to engineering and governance.
Suitable for undergraduate courses and graduate programs alike,
this book is frontier blazing in its own right and will help those
who read it be so as well. Awarded Choice Outstanding Academic
Title for 2012
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