Types of Entrepreneurs

Thomas Andersson (), Martin G. Curley () and Piero Formica ()
Additional contact information
Thomas Andersson: Jönköping Int. Business School, Jönköping University
Martin G. Curley: Intel Corporation and National University of Ireland
Piero Formica: Jönköping University International Entrepreneurship Academy

Chapter Chapter 10 in Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship, 2010, pp 131-152 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract An entrepreneur is an independent agent who adopts a set of rules, consistent with a “search-and-satisfying” type of behavior, in order to reach goals such as the growth and profitability of his or her company. In doing this, curiosity and an instinct for exploration drive the entrepreneur – a combination in which intentional action and the faculty of making lucky and unexpected finds by accident sit side by side. Somehow, entrepreneurs are the incarnation in the real world of the characters of a fairy story, “The Three Princes of Serendip,”1 who “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.” They accept that everything is a matter of degree – that is, they “expect every ‘well-formed’ statement to be not true or false, but true more or less or false somewhat.” In other words, they believe that “A and not-A holds to any degree” (Kosko 1994). By the way, this logic, which is of Buddhist origin and has been defined as “multivalent” or “fuzzy,” in contrast to Aristotle’s “bivalent” logic, marks the most distant frontier between entrepreneurs and those scientists, mostly from the Western culture, who deem that fuzzy logic is wrong and pernicious, notwithstanding the number of innovations that originated from it.

Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurial Opportunity; Nascent Entrepreneur; International Entrepreneurship; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:innchp:978-1-4419-1188-9_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781441911889

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1188-9_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().