ENE, Felicia Nnenna (2014) NEED TO STRENGTHEN LITERACY SKILLS FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL GROWTH. In: Issues and Challenges in Entrepreneurial Education in Nigeria. West and Solomon Publishing Coy Ltd, Onitsha, pp. 353-372. ISBN 978-978-53300-2-1
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The question of who is an entrepreneur or what is entrepreneurship, has raised interest among students, researchers, government officials and even lay people. But the word entrepreneur originated from France. Literary it means 'between taker' or 'go between'. Webster (1981) described the entrepreneur as the person who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business. Okpukpara (2011) traces the origin of entrepreneurship to the 18th Century when the French economist, Richard Cantillon associated the 'risk bearing activity' in the economy with the entrepreneur. By the turn of the 19th century, precisely in 1821, Says as cited in Odigbo & Owoseye (2005), described the entrepreneur as one who moves economic resources from areas of low productivity to areas of high productivity. In furtherance to that, Hisrich et al (2008) define the entrepreneur as an individual who takes risks and starts something new. So an entrepreneur is not just a risk bearer but also an innovator. A good example of one of the earliest entrepreneurs is Marco Polo who established trade routes to the Far East.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences > Faculty of Education |
| Depositing User: | miss ifeoma agbo |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2018 13:09 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2018 13:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/1000 |
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