Understanding Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship comes from the term Entrepreneurship and Business, entrepreneur which means brave, primary, noble or alone, while Business is an activity. Entrepreneurship can be interpreted as things that involve a person's courage to carry out activities independently. Activities to be able to find opportunities to turn into businesses that can produce it are called the entrepreneurial process.
Entrepreneurship is identified with entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can be defined as a human process (human process) related to creativity and innovation in understanding an opportunity, organizing resources, managing it so that the opportunity can be realized into a business that is able to generate profits or value for a long period of time. Another definition is the ability (ability) in creative thinking and innovative behavior that is used as a basis in entrepreneurship, resources, driving force goals, tactics and processes in facing life challenges (Soeparman Soemahamidjaja 1977: 2)
Creative and innovative are the main keys of entrepreneurship, Creativity is the ability to make new combinations or new relationships between elements, data, variables that already exist.
Entrepreneurship was first popularized in France since 1990, Entrepreneurship is identified with entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can be defined as a human process (human process) associated with creativity and innovation in understanding opportunities, organizing resources, managing so that opportunities are realized into a business that is able to generate profits or value for a long period of time.
Understanding Entrepreneurship is an entrepreneur of entrepreneurship, which means people who have creativity and are innovative so that they are able to explore and find opportunities and realize become businesses that produce value or profit.
Understanding of Craftsmanship and Entrepreneurship According to Experts
Definitions from various experts are taken in Dispose and Pure (2006), Research and Development Agency of the Ministry of National Education (2010) Mutis (1995), and Alnedral (2006) with the following explanation:
Richard Cantillon (1734)
Entrepreneur is a person who is able to face risks and uncertainties because they produce goods at a certain cost and resell those items at a certain price.
Jean Baptise Say (1803)
A successful entrepreneur must have the character of a wise decision maker, perseverance and sufficient knowledge about the nature of business, in addition to skills in the aspects of supervision and administration.
Richard T Ely and H Hess (1893)
Entrepreneur is a person who memplaning, organizing and managing the profits of a company in addition to facing uncertainty and risk.
Frederick Larrington. (1922)
The field of entrepreneurship that is successful can be realized in the form of own business, partnership, company, cooperative and unity.
Joseph Schumpeter (1934)
The role of entrepreneurship is to reshape production methods that have been created and process old products in new ways, whether by using new raw materials or reorganizing the production process.
David MC Clelland (1961)
Successful entrepreneurial behavior is risk taking, assertive, energetic, responsible, can make rational decisions, can predict the future and have organizational skills.
Harbison (1965)
Entrepreneurship is between individuals involved in promoting innovation. (Entrepreneurs are among the prime movers of innovation).
Peter F. Drucker (1974)
Entrepreneurs must exchange outdated ideas or existing resources for something that is needed in the future. The main role of entrepreneurship in a company is to produce business opportunities today to meet future business needs.