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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students
January 12-16, 2003 - Monterey, Ca, USA
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Eleanor Baum, Cooper Union, USA
Carl McHargue, University of Tennessee, USA |
The articles for these proceedings are not peer-reviewed.
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Entrepreneurial Contexts and Traits of Entrepreneurs
William R. Pendergast, California State Polytechnic University
ABSTRACT:
This paper adopts a neo-Darwinian perspective that the entrepreneurial process
includes distinctive features that “select” individuals with certain characteristics for
participation and success. These individuals are attracted to entrepreneurial situations and
their compatible traits enable them to navigate the challenges of entrepreneurial contexts.
Furthermore, entrepreneurial environments may reinforce these traits in entrepreneurs,
which develop over time in response to the requirements of entrepreneurial activity
(Littunen, 2000).
The paper begins with a description of early-stage entrepreneurial contexts,
considers individual traits that accommodate those contexts, and concludes with a
metaphor of entrepreneurs as jazz musicians that captures similarities in context and
behavior.
William R. Pendergast, "Entrepreneurial Contexts and Traits of Entrepreneurs" in "Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineering Students", Eleanor Baum and Carl McHargue
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