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Introduction: on the relationship between entrepreneurship and creativity
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Krauss, Gerhard Sternberg, Rolf |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Creativity and entrepreneurship seem to be central concepts for understanding the driving forces in 21stcentury capitalist economies and societies. In the knowledgeintensive domains of the economy, these phenomena are closely intertwined and interdependent, making it sometimes difficult to distinguish clearly between the two. The economic views on the relationship between both phenomena offer one perspective (see the edited volume of Book and Phillips 2013 for another). There are several examples of proof of the increased relevance of creativity in economic development and related government policies. Perhaps the most popular is connected with Florida’s concept of the creative class (Florida 2005a, b), followed by related concepts such as the creative city, creative regions or creative economy, with enormous popularity not so much among researchers (there are in fact some very critical views of Florida’s idea: see Peck 2005 and Krätke 2010), but more particularly among practitioners in the field of local economic development policies, city planning and the like. There is also much empirical evidence of an increasing relevance of entrepreneurship. If, in line with the argumentation of Sternberg and Wennekers (2005), entrepreneurship is understood as a combination of some elements of behavioral entrepreneurship with some aspects of the dynamic perspective of occupational entrepreneurship, then new venture creation is the hallmark of entrepreneurship. In that sense entrepreneurship has become an important field of research that now goes far beyond the traditional focus on the individual entrepreneur and includes contextual impacts of and reasons for entrepreneurial activities and entrepreneurial attitudes. But entrepreneurship has also made enormous gains in the field of public policy. Examples include the attempts of national, regional and local policymakers to support startups with publicly funded infrastructure like business incubators in almost every country worldwide |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4337/9781781004432.00007 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.elgaronline.com/downloadpdf/9781781004425.00007.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781004432.00007 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
