The Entrepreneur

Conclusion

Since the beginning of the 1980s, business creation has been an extremely important economic and social issue (job creation, constant innovation, organization of territory, social change). However, business creation is not always the compensation for a revolutionary technological project. It is also very often an individual’s final hope of finding employment.

The term entrepreneur not only refers to the creator, owner and manager of a business, but also to the project leader of a business. To define the entrepreneur, two problems relating to the behavior of economic agents must be combined: methodological individualism, according to which economic agents are calculators, and the theory of resource potential, according to which the rationality of economic agents is embedded in a network of social relationships. In other words, the entrepreneur is an economic agent whose ultimate goal is to create a business from a well-defined project. To realize his project, he mobilizes a number of resources (knowledge-based, financial and relationship-based), from which he produces other resources (employment, innovation, etc.), interacting with his environment. In this sense, the entrepreneur is rational, because he maximizes his resources in order to achieve a goal, which is to create his own job. In this sense, his behavior is opportunistic, because he seeks to take advantage of all the opportunities presented to him (a social relationship, a grant, a requirement, etc.). In these ...