Entrepreneurship Concepts

Entrepreneurship Concepts

1. Who is an entrepreneur?
Basically an entrepreneur is an innovator, job and wealth generator.
In addition to the above he is also

1. Change agent
2. Problem solver
3. Pace setter
4. Excellence seeker
5. Marketing executive
6. Concept promoter

2. Why is an entreneur called a change agent?
Whenever and wherever problems occur, the individual seeks to eliminate the problems so that the would could be a better place to live in, a life worth living. In order to make it happen, one has to think of such processes that would yield products and services that would enable and bring happiness, joy, comfort and peace. Therefore he seeks such ventures that would bring about this change. He loos for opportunities for converting the challenges into comforts. So, he is called as change agents
3. What are the important features of entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship is basically an activity that helps in sensing the opportunities, resourcing “innovation” and realizing the “pay-off” through the actions performed by him or her.
During thiis process the individual scans an environment for opportunities, identifiies them, examines the feasibility of converting (or changing) that opportunity into a possible enterprise for production, drafts plan of action and then engages oneself in such activities that would cause the product.
Thus they change the opportunities into an product or services.
4. An enterprise is a process of converting a challenge into an opportunity – Do you agree? Justify your answer.
Yes, I agree.
Entrepreneurship is basically an activity that helps in sensing the opportunities or identifying the challenges, resourcing “innovation” and realizing the “pay-off” through the actions performed by him or her.
During thiis process the individual scans an environment for opportunities, identifiies them, examines the feasibility of converting (or changing) that opportunity into a possible enterprise for production, drafts plan of action and then engages oneself in such activities that would cause the product.
The enterprise thus formed converts the challege into an opportunity.
5. How does Entrepreneurship help in building up the professional profile of an individual?
The spirit of Entrepreneurship helps the individuals to grow. It brings out the multi-faceted talent in him.
Entrepreneur has to face many challenges in setting up and running of the enterprise. To be successful Entrepreneur has to plan, communicate, manage various aspects of the market. In doing so, he becomes a complete professional.
6. How can we say that an entrepreneur contributes to social development?
Entrepreneurs contribute to social development through the following activities.

1. For Individual
   1. They provide new employment opportunities
   2. They improve the standard of living of the people.
2. For Investors
   1. They provide investment opportunities for the investors and generate the wealth and distribute it to the investors. Thus helping the investors to grow their wealth.
3. For the nation
   1. They contribute to the GDP of the nation directly.
   2. They contribute to the area development by re-investing in projects.
   3. They will be responsible for industrial and technical developments.

7. Why has an entrepreneur to be a pacesetter?
Entrepreneurship is basically an activity that helps in sensing the opportunities or identifying the challenges, resourcing “innovation” and realizing the “pay-off” through the actions performed by him or her.
During thiis process the entrepreneur scans an environment for opportunities, identifiies them, examines the feasibility of converting (or changing) that opportunity into a possible enterprise for production, drafts plan of action and then engages oneself in such activities that would cause the product.
Thus the entrepreneur is the first person to conver a challenge into an opportunity and paves way for the others to follow, either by copying or imitating his innovative idea. Thus becoming the pace setter.
8. How does the entrepreneur contribute to the growth of the Gross National Product?
Entrepreneurs make the society sensitive to the productivity.
The increase in the productivity, cost effectiveness and persuit of excellence increases the Gross National Product.
9. “An Entrepreneur converts the demand into supply”. Comment.

1. Entrepreneur identifies demand of a product in the changing needs or traditions or customs or lifestyles of people in the society.
2. He meets the demand by producing goods or services.
3. This results in more Entrepreneurs entering into the market and producting similar products or services to meet the same need. Hence there will be many options for a consumer in the market.
4. This results in demand getting converted to supply.

10. Identify at least two entrepreneurs who have influenced the society with tehir ideas – Explain how it has been possible for them.
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani : He was working with Arab merchanges as a normal worker. He left his job and moved to Mumbai(in 1958) to start his own business spices. He later started the textile business and opened his own mill. He started Reliance Industries which was contributing to around 5% of the central government’s tax revenue.
Phanindra Sama : When he was unable to get a bus ticket when he wanted to travel from Bangalore to his home town, during a festive season, he sensed the problem of ticket information not reaching the passengers. Later on he learned that though the tickets were available, due to the lack of availability of information, with the agents, many passengers are not getting the tickets. He converted this challenge into an opportunity and started his website redbus.in, the setting the pace for selling the bus tickets online. He was recently select as high impact entrepreneur.
11. How does an entreneur differ from an inventor.
An entrepreneur is an innovator and is different from an inventor in the following ways.

Inventor	Entrepreneur(Innovator)
Invents new methods and new services.	Combines new methods/services and applies innovation to produce better products/services.
He is largely concerned with the technical aspects of the matter he deals with.	He is largely converned with the economic, social and marketing dimensions of the subject matter.
He keeps the commercial prospects of his innovation as the last preference.	He examines the commercial and economic viability of his product in the market.

12. ‘An entrepreneur converts a source into a resource’ – Exemplify.
A source becomes a resource only when it acquires a utilitarian dimention bestowing it with an economic value.
For instance, air, water, land and minerals are present in abundance in the form of sources. The become a resource only when they acquire a utilitarian dimension and are used in creating new utilitties. The entrepreneurs have the capacity to create new utilities and values for them, or in increasing their existing economic value. The also have the capacity to convert them into new productive configurations.
13. How does Peter Drucker envisage the role of the entrepreneur?
Peter Drucker describes the entrepreneur in a befitting manner as “one who is involved in gathering and using resources to opportunities to produce results”.
According to him, the following should be the qualities of an entrepreneur.

1. Searches for a change
2. Respond to change
3. Exploits the change as anopportunity.

Peter Drucker argues that the innovation is a specific instrument of an entrepreneur. Hence an effective entrepreneur converts a source into a resource.
14. ‘Entrepreneurship is essential for the economic growth of a country’ – Identify any three reasons to support the above statement?

Entrepreneurship is essential for the economic growth of a country.

1. The increase in the number of entrepreneurs is indicative of the increassing sensitivity of the nation to be productive and generative. This will slowly increase the Gross National Product of the country through increased productivity and pursuit of excellence and cost effectiveness.
2. The prosperity of the nation is driven by a remarcable increase in the foreign exchange of the country due to increase in the number of entrepreneurs in the field of Information technology and other sectors.
3. Employment opportunities are increased and the standard of living of the citizens of a country is raised. This catalyses the regional development of a country.

These factors are indicative of the fact that the Entrepreneurship is essential for the growth of a country.
15. In entrepreneurship totally consumer driven? – Critically analyse the statement and project your views.
Entrepreneurs manufacture the products that will satisfy the needs and wants of the consumer. The modifications or developments or new inventions always aim at meeting the changing needs of consumers. So, we can say that entrepreneurship is consumer oriented. But there are some cases like invention of electric bulb, a personal computer, an i-pod etc which are not out of consumer wants. These are technological developments. But again these inventions helped to increase the standard of living of the society so they are accepted by consumers. Hence, we cannot say that entrepreneurship is totally consumer driven.