9.1  Business Entrepreneurship across Borders

Key Takeaways

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Understand why entrepreneurship can vary across borders.

2. Recognize how entrepreneurship differs from country to country.

3. Access and utilize the Doing Business and Global Entrepreneurship Monitor resources.

• Entrepreneurship is defined as the recognition of opportunities (i.e., needs, wants, problems, and challenges) and the use or creation of resources to implement innovative ideas for new, thoughtfully planned ventures.

• Entrepreneurship differs in various countries; for instance, it is easier to do business in some countries than others, and this would likely have an impact on the level of entrepreneurship in each country. The Doing Business and Global Entrepreneurship Monitor resources offer insights into everything from a quantitative measure of regulations for starting a business to an assessment of the national level of entrepreneurial activity.

阅读材料 1：Diagnosing COVID-19 Impacts on Entrepreneurship

阅读材料 2：Women’s Entrepreneurship 2020/21 Thriving Through Crisis

视频：What is entrepreneurship?

课件分享：Fundamentals of BusinessEntrepreneurship

课后思考：FOOD FOR THOUGHT

1. Why might the level of entrepreneurship vary across countries?

2. Would all the factors that promote or constrain business entrepreneurship also affect the level of social entrepreneurship?

3. Do you think some industries would be more affected or less affected by the criteria in the Doing Business rankings?