ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESSES

very much essential as it influences the economic prosperity and growth of a country. This enables the organization to create a strong free market economy. The entrepreneurs aim to provide assistance in the identification of effective opportunities for the organization. These opportunities help the organization to create innovative and effective services for the society. The present study focuses on the different types of entrepreneurial venture and how they create an impact on the economy. Moreover, the study focuses on the impact of small business on the economy along with assessing the mindset of the entrepreneur that hinders or fosters entrepreneurship.

LO1 Explore and illustrate the range of different ventures that are entrepreneurial

P1 Examine different entrepreneurial ventures and explain how they relate to entrepreneurial topology

Entrepreneurship defines the ability to take proper action and offering the courage that helps in preserving and committing to all the available challenges and problems that benefits an organization. According to Basu and Bharti (2016), entrepreneurs possess the ability to transform vision into a business. Entrepreneurs help the organization to identify several opportunities to make use of the available resources in an efficient manner. It helps to set up a promising future for the organization. Entrepreneurs in small organizations help them by identifying various areas that they need to work on along with providing many ways that help the organization in promoting their new products and services. The activities of entrepreneurship vary from organization to organization. The different kinds of entrepreneurial ventures are discussed below:

Private entrepreneurship

Private entrepreneurship refers to the activities of an entrepreneur, where it deals with all the prevalent process. The process at first deals with the identification of many opportunities which benefits the business in terms of overall growth. Countries consist of different entrepreneurial ventures, mostly in terms of medium and small organizations. Moreover, this entrepreneurship influences in contributing to the economy of the nation by providing employment opportunities along with value-added initiatives.

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Large organizations deal with this type of entrepreneurial activities. For maintaining and developing the business operations, large organizations expand their entrepreneurial activities. This activity includes producing new products or services that help in attracting and retaining more customers. The corporate entrepreneurs mainly focus on the organization culture and process for creating a suitable and friendly working environment. This enables them to handle risks efficiently along with gaining more future opportunities.

Intrapreneurship

According to Blackburn (2016), this is an innovative strategy which is used in encouraging the employees of the organization for delivering innovative products and services. After the employee ideas are approved by the high-level organizational management, the organization focuses on financing in the development and research field. This entrepreneurship helps the organization by enhancing the workplace activities.

Public sector entrepreneurship

This consists of the entrepreneurial activities that are all carried out by the government. These type of public sector entrepreneurial organizations aims to offer good services to the people of the nation. Generally, they act as a corporate entrepreneurial venture with the same sort of corporate entrepreneurial principles which helps them to manage the business efficiently.

Social entrepreneurship

It consists of the entrepreneurial activities that are mainly performed by the social organizations like NGOs, non-profit organizations and many more. The process assists in identifying various social issues which are mainly performed by the community and the implementation of entrepreneurial activities enable the organization in creating, finding, and managing various ventures.

Academic entrepreneurship

These entrepreneurial activities are mainly performed by the research and academic institutions. It aims with innovation in enabling the organization to move towards the intellectual property rights. This type of entrepreneurship only exists in research and development enterprises.

P2 Explore the differences between different entrepreneurial ventures

The differences and similarities between two of the entrepreneurial ventures are discussed below:

Lifestyle entrepreneurship

Lifestyle entrepreneurship is termed as the purpose of an individual who forms a business venture not to make profits but to change the lifestyle. According to Boateng (2018), a lifestyle entrepreneur mainly focuses on the business rewards or sometimes they possess the business venture as their passion.

Social entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship defines the techniques through which organizations are allowed to fund, develop, and implement solutions to the environmental, social, and cultural issues within the organization. This entrepreneurship concept varies from organization to organization in terms of beliefs, size, and goals.