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Which factor does NOT contribute to the causes of entrepreneurship?
What is the concept introduced by Joseph Schumpeter regarding entrepreneurship?
According to the discussed theories, entrepreneurship is primarily fueled by the combination of what two elements?
What does Peter Drucker suggest about innovation in relation to entrepreneurship?
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Which of the following questions is NOT part of the entrepreneurship research framework?
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What are the four categories of key resources in a business model?
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Which of the following best describes the 'Long-Tail' business model pattern?
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What is primarily described by the term 'key activities' in a business model?
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What is the significance of revenue streams in a business model?
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What type of business model pattern requires the engagement of multiple customer groups?
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Which of the following is NOT considered a part of the cost structure in a business model?
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How does the 'Free Model' business pattern primarily operate?
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Which of these is considered a crucial aspect of customer relationships in a business model?
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What is one of the historical measures of entrepreneurship since the 1980s?
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Which of the following statements best describes the limitations of measuring entrepreneurship by the number of SMEs?
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What is a commonly recognized characteristic of entrepreneurs?
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Which step involved in venture creation comes first?
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According to the content, what is an essential element that distinguishes entrepreneurship from mere business ownership?
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What characteristic is typically associated with entrepreneurial opportunities?
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What does the term 'entrepreneurship' specifically stem from?
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Why is self-employment considered a limited view of entrepreneurship?
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What does the term 'comparative customer value' refer to?
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What is included in a revenue model?
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Which of the following is NOT a component to consider when analyzing a revenue model?
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What does the 'external perspective' of the Business Model Canvas primarily focus on?
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Which section of the Business Model Canvas defines the target audience?
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What is the main benefit of using the Business Model Canvas?
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Which component of the Business Model Canvas describes the advantages customers gain from a company's offerings?
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When developing a business model, which side of the Business Model Canvas is suggested to start with?
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What is the first phase of the creative process?
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Which thinking method focuses on identifying connections among diverse data?
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Entering a market too early can lead to failure because:
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What is a strategy called for a business entering late into the market?
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Which crucial objective must be clarified before market entry?
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What does the term 'innovation' fundamentally relate to?
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Which option best describes the process of innovation?
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What is NOT emphasized in the definition of innovation?
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Study Notes
Business Model Components
- Selling activities encompass distribution, points of sale, and customer communication.
- Customer relationships are crucial for addressing specific customer group needs within a business model.
- Revenue streams indicate how a company generates income from its value proposition, focusing on customer willingness to pay.
Key Resources and Activities
- Key resources are essential goods for operating a business, categorized into:
- Physical resources (premises, production machinery)
- Intellectual resources (knowledge, patents, partnerships)
- Human resources (workforce capabilities)
- Financial resources (available capital, collateral)
- Key activities are necessary actions to implement the business model and deliver value propositions.
- Cost structure outlines all costs involved in the business model, aiding financial planning through key resources, activities, and partnerships.
Business Model Patterns
- Unbundling: Divides companies into three distinct businesses (customer relationship, product innovation, infrastructure).
- Long-Tail: Emphasizes selling numerous niche products with lower sales volume.
- Multi-Sided: Needs multiple customer groups to engage for the value proposition to succeed.
- Free Model: Offers continuous free benefits to a significant customer segment.
Entrepreneurship Defined
- Derived from "entreprendre," meaning to undertake or take an initiative.
- Involves a positive mindset, is an academic discipline, and encompasses the process of identifying and exploiting opportunities.
- Historical entrepreneurship measures since the 1980s focus on the number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
SMEs and Entrepreneurship
- SMEs represent 99% of EU businesses, significantly contributing to GDP and job creation (approximately 100 million jobs).
- Limitations of using SMEs as a sole measure:
- Firm size definitions are inconsistent.
- Not all small firms exhibit entrepreneurial behavior.
- Inclusion of non-innovative or hobby businesses distorts the entrepreneurial landscape.
Business Ownership Perspectives
- Common entrepreneurial measures include being self-employed or business ownership.
- Risk-taking is a key trait for entrepreneurs.
- Limitations of this view highlight it as one-dimensional and lacking in capturing the full scope of entrepreneurship, particularly venture creation and innovation.
Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Venture Creation
- Entrepreneurs identify opportunities to create organizations to exploit them.
- Main steps in venture creation include identifying, validating, and exploiting opportunities.
- Entrepreneurial opportunities are characterized by:
- Value creation via resource recombination.
- New product, solution, technology, or market development.
- Involvement of personal risk.
- Impact of technological, political, regulatory, demographic, and individual changes.
Research Questions in Entrepreneurship
- Explores why, when, and how certain goods and services opportunities arise.
- Investigates factors influencing the discovery and exploitation of these opportunities.
- Focuses on the combination of economic opportunities and skilled individuals.
Innovation and Economic Impact
- Joseph Schumpeter introduced "creative destruction" as a driver of market evolution.
- Peter Drucker emphasized that innovation is facilitated by entrepreneurship turning ideas into tangible products, processes, and services.
Business Model Canvas
- A tool providing a common understanding for developing business models through nine sections.
- Divided into external (customers, value proposition, channels) and internal (key resources, activities, partnerships, cost structure) views.
- Creative process phases include recognition, incubation, insight, and validation, incorporating both convergent and divergent thinking.
Market Timing and Entry
- Importance of timing in market entry, considering whether a product launch is too early, on time, or late.
- Being too early means market unpreparedness; being too late generally results in stiff competition.
- Necessary to evaluate market conditions for optimal entry timing concerning the innovative idea.
Defining Innovation
- Innovation refers to creating something new, involving improvement or change.
- Entrails a sequence from idea generation to commercialization, highlighting organizational behavior and resource allocation.
- Emphasizes matching problems with innovative solutions and successfully exploiting new ideas.
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This quiz covers the core elements of business marketing and sales strategies, focusing on customer relationships, distribution channels, and revenue streams. Understand how companies manage communications with customers and the different ways to generate revenue through effective proposals.
