Entrepreneurship

Starting and running a business: ideas, theories, funding, challenges and the Indian startup ecosystem.

Entrepreneur with a lightbulb and compass looking toward a new venture
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: An entrepreneur is a person or group who spots an opportunity, starts a new enterprise, combines resources and

Founder launching an idea beside a manager organising a team schedule
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: An entrepreneur starts a business, bears the risk and earns profit (or loss), while a manager is an

Entrepreneur with idea beside capitalist with money bags, illustrating the difference between entrepreneur and capitalist
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: An entrepreneur starts and organises a business, contributes vision and initiative, makes key decisions, earns uncertain profit and

Tech founder, farmer, franchise owner, social worker and corporate innovator, illustrating types of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: The main types of entrepreneurship are small business, scalable startup, corporate (intrapreneurship), social, technopreneurship, green, lifestyle, serial, franchise,

Lineup of innovative, cautious, cooperative and government entrepreneurs, illustrating types of entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs are classified by attitude to innovation (Danhof, 1949: innovative, imitative, Fabian and drone), by ownership (private, state,

Entrepreneur opening a factory gate with a growing town behind, illustrating the role of entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs organise land, labour and capital into businesses that create jobs, products and wealth. They drive capital formation,

Entrepreneur at the centre of a growing economy with factories and labs, illustrating importance of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurship is important because it creates jobs, drives growth, brings innovation, increases competition, raises living standards, spreads development

Entrepreneur crossing stepping stones toward a new venture, illustrating the nature of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurship is the ability to start, run and grow a venture by taking risks and innovating. It is

Entrepreneur surrounded by risk, innovation, leadership and achievement symbols, illustrating concepts of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurship has been defined in several ways over time. The ten main concepts see it as risk bearing,

Manager with compass and map guiding a team as fog clears, illustrating the importance of planning
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Planning gives a business a sense of direction, prepares it for an uncertain future, keeps attention on objectives