Entrepreneurship What is the word that defines entrepreneurs? Do you become an entrepreneur or are you born one?
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Entrepreneurship
Objetivos • Crear, reconocer y desarrollar oportunidades es el núcleo mismo de la iniciativa emprendedora; • Ayudar a las instituciones de educación superior para que puedan analizar sus capacidades para desarrollar entre sus egresados su capacidad emprendedora.
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Entrepreneurship
Enterprise & entrepreneurship Creating, recognising, and exploiting opportunities is at the very core of entrepreneurship; this module is intended to help students develop a greater self-awareness of their own skills and capabilities for enterprise and
entrepreneurship and to develop these.
Enterprise refers to the skills, knowledge, attributes and capabilities that are needed to apply creative ideas and solutions to practical problems or
situations.
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Entrepreneurship
Enterprise & entrepreneurship skills This includes creativity, problem solving, detection and exploitation of opportunities, motivation and perseverance, taking the initiative, mobilizing resources, working with others, managing risk and uncertainty and developing self-awareness and self-efficacy (trust).
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Entrepreneur Definition Entrepreneur: A person who habitually creates and innovates to build something of recognized value around perceived opportunities. Bolton & Thompson (2005)
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Entrepreneurial mindset Entrepreneurship is not just about business skills and abilities or establishing new businesses, but it is a way of thinking and behaving that can have an impact on all parts of our society and our economy.
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset 1. Need of achievement McClelland and others have argued that the desire to excel to achieve a specific goal is an important characteristic ofentrepreneurs.
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset 2. High locus of internal control The desire to control our own destiny, the belief of our ability to determine our success and influence in anexternal environment.
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset 3. Curiosity An inquisitive mind is very common among entrepreneurs and can strengthen their ability to see things from a new perspective. Always asking questions, looking for different ways of doing things;creating or detecting new opportunities.
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset 4. Perseverance The determination to persevere through difficulties and challenges and resist rejection and disillusionment is a critical mentality that keeps the entrepreneur going. Seeing the challenges and setbacks as learning opportunities helps keep the entrepreneur focused and optimistic.
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset 5. Security Great efficiency or security in our own ideas and in ourability to mobilize resources and motivate others to achieve it.
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset 6. Tolerance to ambiguity and risk taking Elasticity and tolerance to ambiguity and change; what has been described in the field of sport as mental hardness; that helps the entrepreneur to face uncertain and difficult situations and still remains open to making risk decisions.
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7 characteristics of the Entrepreneurial mindset 7. Vision Creating an entrepreneurial vision is an act of the imagination: you see it in your mind before it becomes real in the world; elaborating the vision in reality. Sharing your vision in a way that inspires others, clearly communicating this in a convincing message.
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Entrepreneurship
Key Enterprise & entrepreneurial traits and characteristics • • • • • • • •
The ambition and desire to achieve and succeed A desire for independence. Vision, flair and imagination. Creative and innovative. Prepared to take risks. Perseverance – they never give up. Visionary/ strategic thinkers – looking to the future. Set high standards for themselves and others.
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Contact Marina Ventura, Coordinator. Career Services and Alumni office. Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) T: +351 21 790 3000 marina.ventura@iscte.pt Av. das Forรงas Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This document reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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