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Of Entrepreneurship And Schumpeterian Innovational Entrepreneurship Theory

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Beside Schumpeterian entrepreneurship theory, William Baumol (1990) also gave us a viewpoint that entrepreneur’s job is to making innovation, which would means the technological progress and growth. And entrepreneur would heavily influence the dissemination of a new technology. The economy will more productive if the new technology is used worldwide. He insisted that entrepreneurial talent and motivational mechanisms are important in successful economy, and entrepreneur can be trained. Moreover, in his point, entrepreneurs and the market mechanism with its pricing process helps each other to run in the economy. However, different from Schumpeterian theory, Baumol (1990) thinks entrepreneurship could be divided into several forms. He used some term that has been employed to help …show more content…

Baumol thinks that it is necessary to make a distinction mainly between productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. It is hard to distinguish productive and unproductive entrepreneurship detailed, but the brief differences could be given based on some literature. Productive entrepreneurial activities are those contribute to the net output or increase the additional output capability in the economy, like innovations. The most preventative is Schumpeterian innovational entrepreneurship, just as we have discussed before, which could bring wealth to social life. The exercises of entrepreneurship sometimes could be unproductive or even destructive, how they are allocated mainly depended on the reward structure in the economy. Also the policy can influence the allocation of entrepreneurship more effectively than influence its supply, it influences the total supply of entrepreneurship by changing the allocation between productive and unproductive activities. And those activities are heavily depending on the structure of payoffs in the

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