Entrepreneurship Resources

Definitions

Entrepreneurs are different to Managers. Managers are concerned with the efficiency of systems; Entrepreneurs are 'the one's who undertake', and are concerned with changing things.
General sense: An E. is anyone who organizes a new business firm of any variety, whether or not a number of similar firms exist already. Most are "replicative entrepreneurs" - ie. they produce new types of existing models. Some are "innovative entrepreneurs", who locate new ideas and to put them into effect. The skills of REs are more easily taught - it is largely covered in the management literature. The skills required by IEs on the other hand, are largely not addressed in the standard business curriculum. They deal with product heterogeneity, uncertainty and discontinuity.
The IE is engaged in the “innovation” chain, which includes but is more expansive than an “invention": it 'entails all of the steps needed to adapt the invention to the desires of purchasers, organize its production, and put it to use—by selling or leasing the invention to others or by directly incorporating it into the production process of the final product to which it contributes.' IEs are partners to inventors.

Resources

Faith-integrated...

Incubators:

Business Networks

Academic Pathways

Theology and Business

Readings

Aspiras, Thepiolus. (2016). 'Business as Mission and Marketing to the Poor', Allied Academies International Conference. Academy of Entrepreneurship. Proceedings; Arden Vol. 22, Iss. 1, : 1-7.
Dana, L. (2009). 'Religion as an explanatory variable for entrepreneurship'. International
journal of entrepreneurship and innovation 10.2, pp. 87–97.
Den Dekker, M. H. (2013). Entrepreneurship among Christians: Are Religious Values Associated with the Decision of Christian to Become an Entrepreneur?.(Master's Thesis Erasmus University Rotterdam) Retrieved from http://thesis.eur.nl/pub/13625/MA- Thesis-Maarten-den-Dekker-334581.pdf.
Judge, William Q. & Thomas J. Douglas. (2013). 'Entrepreneurship as a leap of faith', Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion 10.1, pp. 37-65.
Tong, Joy Kooi-Chin. (2012). Overseas Chinese Christian entrepreneurs in modern China: a case study of the influence of Christian ethics on business life, London & New York: Anthem Press.