Practical Examples

Crowducate – My Journey for an Opportunity

Crowducate Entrepreneurship Opportunity

In the last blog post we talked about discovery vs. creation of opportunities. As I promised in my first blog post, I’m going to use my own entrepreneurial journey as an example or my own entrepreneurial journeys as examples for the academic concepts, which I’ve introduced here. So you might one to read the previous post before you continue. So let’s have a look at the open education platform Crowducate. Btw, for the tech-savvy: Manuel Schoebel (@DerMambo) gives you a great introduction to how we developed the prototype of Crowducate.

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Theory

What is the Field of Entrepreneurship all about?

Research Field Entrepreneurship Opportunity

I’m glad you asked. This simple question has sparked many discussions for decades. Should entrepreneurship be a discipline of its own? Is it only about new ventures? If yes, would that mean that larger organizations couldn’t be entrepreneurial? And if larger organization can be entrepreneurial, why should entrepreneurship be a discipline of its own? If that is the case, then entrepreneurship should be a part of strategy management or organizations science. After decades of discussions, Shane and Venkataraman (2000: p. 218) suggest the following definition, which in the meantime has become highly influential, for the scholarly field:

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