Q.Write one definition of entrepreneurship.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Entrepreneurship is the purposeful activity of starting, maintaining and growing a profit-oriented business — the process of identifying an opportunity, organising resources, innovating and bearing risk (as defined by A. H. Cole).
Definition of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the process or activity carried on by an entrepreneur to establish and run an enterprise. A standard definition, used in the AP Inter 2nd-year Commerce syllabus (which aligns with the NCERT/CBSE commerce curriculum), is:
A. H. Cole: "Entrepreneurship is the purposeful activity of an individual or a group of associated individuals, undertaken to initiate, maintain or aggrandize a profit-oriented business unit for the production or distribution of economic goods and services."
In simpler words, entrepreneurship is the process of:
- identifying a business opportunity,
- organising the factors of production,
- innovating, and …
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