Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
- n. The quality of being an entrepreneur.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the activity of organizing, managing, and assuming the risks of a business enterprise.
Etymologies
- From entrepreneur + -ship. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“• The second one is because of the term entrepreneurship, which is derived from the French verb entreprendre and appeared in the French language as early as the Middle Ages.”
“The word entrepreneurship was used only once in his big Georgetown speech on the economy in April 2009 and rarely thereafter.”
“Given that the term "entrepreneurship" has achieved cult status in policy speeches, I was disappointed at our leaders' superficiality and misconceptions, and its de facto low priority.”
“In practice, that kind of entrepreneurship is not mobile at all.”
“No one mentions the word entrepreneurship despite the fact that the only net new jobs being created in the US are from new businesses.”
The Huffington Post: Amy Rosen: Davos 2011: Seeding the Entrepreneurial Mindset
“A one-for-one initiative may require investing time and money to make consumers aware it exists, says Tom Lumpkin, chair in entrepreneurship at Syracuse University.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Toms' Shoes: Start-Ups Copy 'One-for-One' Model
“The social and economic infrastructure for social entrepreneurship is quickly developing, involving some of the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world.”
“If Chinese entrepreneurship is fake or illusory -- then what explains the fact that Chinese goods have taken quality conscious western markets by storm?”
“Chicago entrepreneurship is converging some powerful forces for political reform in Chicago: Early and Often.”
The Huffington Post: Sally Duros: Voting Early and Often Could Be a Good Thing
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘entrepreneurship’.
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US - realia
Words and expressions, people and cultural realia that foreigners associate with the United States
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Nouns
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Economists do it with models
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National Library Agenda Summit
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the art/science of economics
Because economics kicks ass.
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