Friday, August 5, 2011

WHO IS AN ENTREPRENEUR?

An entrepreneur is a person with a dream, originality and daring, who acts as the boss, who decides as to how the commercial organization shall run, who coordinates all activities or other factors of production, who anticipates the future trend of demand and prices of products.
We can define entrepreneur as one who innovates, raises money, assembles inputs, choose managers and sets the organization going with his ability to identify them.
As per Peter Drucker- “An entrepreneur is one who always searches for change, responds to it as an opportunity. Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is a specific instrument of entrepreneurship”.
As per Joseph A. Schumpeter- “Entrepreneur is one who innovates, raises money, and assembles inputs, chooses managers and sets the commercial organization going with his ability to identify them and opportunities which others are not able to identify and is able to fulfill such economic opportunities”.
As per Walker- "An entrepreneur is one who is endowed with more than average capacities in the task of organizing and co-coordinating the various factors of production. He should be a pioneer, a captain of industry".