ENTREPRENEURSHIP – BORN, MADE AND EDUCATED
The birth and infancy of entrepreneurship was turned into a specific area of academic
study and empirical research quite early. The field greatly evolved, and at the same
time, a constant urge to deal with real problems existed, from firm creation to
industrial growth, including firm strategy and economic policy.
Economic, sociological, and managerial academics began to devise a detailed and
interpretative framework for the study of entrepreneurship. Many people came from
different fields, and there was a need to overcome the limitation of the standard
neoclassical theory of entrepreneurship. New areas of research were embraced,
thereby recognizing that powerful mechanisms are at work in entrepreneurship and
require systematic...
