Successful entrepreneurship

1
Successful entrepreneurship

• Innovations related to local resources
• Entry of firms
• Local value creation
• Survival rate
• Number of employees
• Return on investments

2
Entrepreneurial Orientation

• Innovativeness (new ideas, experimentation)
• Proactiveness (foresight to seize new
  opportunities)
• Competitive agressiveness (improve position in
  the marketplace)
• Motivation (make a business dream a reality)
• Risk taking (uncertainty and riskiness of self
  employment)
• Background (education, age, gender, experience,
  family background)

3
Place-Based Education

• Roots back to critical theory and critical
  pedagogy
• Using a place-based curriculum
• Using local environment
• Problem-based learning
• Activity theory

4
ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION
- INNOVATIVENESS - PROACTIVENESS - COMPETITIVE
AGRESIVENESS - RISK TAKING - AUTONOMY -
Entrepreneurs Resources
Place-Based learning
Resources
Capabilities to
Educational philosophy
Do organizational processes Develop and deploy
resources Implement new resources and innovation
Know-how Financial assets Physical assets Human
capital, knowledge based
Multidisciplinary
Connect place with self and community
Entrepreneurial orientation from place-based
learning
Local attributes of places
Experimental
SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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