3. What is an “Entrepreneur”?
• What do you think of when we talk about
entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship?
4. Definitions
• The Oxford English Dictionary has three
definitions of “Entrepreneur”
– The director or manager of a public musical
institution
– One who ‘gets up’ entertainments, esp. musical
performances
– One who undertakes an enterprise; one who owns
and manages a business; a person who takes the
risk of profit or loss
5. Definitions
• The Oxford English Dictionary has three
definitions of “Entrepreneur”
– The director or manager of a public musical
institution
– One who ‘gets up’ entertainments, esp. musical
performances
– One who undertakes an enterprise; one who owns
and manages a business; a person who takes the
risk of profit or loss
6. Definitions
• Wikipedia goes on to define Entrepreneurship
as
– “…the act and art of being an entrepreneur or one
who undertakes innovations or introducing new
things, finance and business acumen, in an effort
to transform innovations into economic goods.”
7. Definitions
• Wikipedia goes on to define Entrepreneurship
as
– “…the act and art of being an entrepreneur or one
who undertakes innovations or introducing new
things, finance and business acumen, in an effort
to transform innovations into economic goods.”
• What does this really mean?
8. Who Are You?
• Do you think of yourselves as entrepreneurs?
Why
Why not?
What makes you an
entrepreneurial
• What Sort of Entrepreneur are you?
9. (Business) Entrepreneurs
• Defined earlier
• What makes the difference between a
businessperson and an entrepreneur?
– Not just innovation, but change and reinvention
10. Social Entrepreneurs
• Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing
innovative solutions to social problems
• – More specifically, social
adopt a mission to create and sustain
value
• Is social value different or the same as economic
value?
• What is the different between a social
entrepreneur and a “general do-gooder”?
11. Creative Entrepreneurs
• Creative entrepreneurship is the practice of
setting up yourself up in one of the creative
industries
– The focus of the creative entrepreneur differs from
that of the typical business entrepreneur or the social
entrepreneur in that the primary aim is the creation
and exploitation of creative or intellectual capital
• How does creative or intellectual capital
differ from economic value?
12. So…
• … what sort of entrepreneur are you?
• It’s worth looking at the people your admire
and respect