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,CHAPTER 1: ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT-REVOLUTIONARY IMPACT
TRUE/FALSE
1. Entrepreneurs are aggressive catalysts for change within the marketplace.
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NAT: AACSB Reflective Thinking | Individual Dynamics
2. Entrepreneurs are not heroes in today’s marketplace.
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3. Entrepreneurs are the major source of innovation and job creation in any economy.
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4. Entrepreneurship is more than the mere creation of a business.
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5. During the past ten years, new business incorporations averaged nearly 600,000 per year.
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6. One of every 1,000 adults participates in the founding of a new firm every year.
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7. The entrepreneurial spirit is unique to America and Western Europe.
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8. A “gazelle” is a business establishment with at least 20 percent sales growth every year for five years.
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9. Gazelles produce half the innovations per employee that larger firms typically do.
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10. New and smaller firms obtain more patents per sale than do larger firms.
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11. Gazelles produced 5 million jobs despite the continual downsizing in major corporations over the last
decade.
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12. New and smaller firms are responsible for 95 percent of all radical innovations.
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13. Gazelles are almost always high tech.
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14. Gazelles do not always get venture capital funding.
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15. Three characteristics of an entrepreneur are personal initiative, management skills, and a desire for
autonomy.
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16. Large firms, as opposed to entrepreneurs, are the aggressive catalyst for change in the world of
business.
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17. The word entrepreneur is derived from the Spanish word entreprendre, meaning “to undertake.”
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18. There is no single definition of an entrepreneur.
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19. Recognition of entrepreneurs dates back to the French economist Richard Cantillon.
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20. Entrepreneurs are the major source of innovation and job creation in the economy.
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21. According to Robert C. Ronstadt, entrepreneurship is the process of creating incremental wealth.
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22. Most entrepreneurs are inventors.
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23. An entrepreneur needs neither a lot of money nor luck.
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24. Prepared entrepreneurs who seize opportunities when they arise often appear to be lucky.
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25. Entrepreneurs are high risk takers.
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26. Entrepreneurs always start their business at a young age.
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27. Characteristics of entrepreneurs can neither be taught nor learned.
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28. Entrepreneurs are born not made.
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29. Entrepreneurs are doers not thinkers.
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30. Entrepreneurs must fit the “profile.”
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31. Entrepreneurs are often very methodical people who plan their moves very carefully.
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