Entrepreneurship and Innovation Practices

This assignment provides a detailed analysis of entrepreneurship and innovation practices across various ventures. It covers topics such as serial entrepreneurs, the triple helix model, and the diverse personas of engineering innovators. The assignment also discusses social entrepreneurship, innovation strategies, and the challenges faced by ethnic minority small business owners. With a focus on practical applications, this document is ideal for students looking to understand the intricacies of entrepreneurship and innovation.

Entrepreneurship and
small business
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO1..................................................................................................................................................1
P1 Different types of entrepreneurial ventures and their relation with typologies of
entrepreneurship.....................................................................................................................1
P2 Similarities and differences between various entrepreneurial ventures............................3
LO2..................................................................................................................................................5
P3 Determining the impact of micro and small business on economy...................................5
P4 Importance of Small and New starts-up business in the growth of Social Economy ......6
LO3..................................................................................................................................................7
P5 Determining the characteristics, traits and skills of successful entrepreneurs which
differentiate them from other business managers ..................................................................7
P6 Entrepreneurial aspects that reflects the mindset and Motivation of entrepreneurs.........9
LO4................................................................................................................................................11
P7 Examine the background and experiences of enterprises can hinder the entrepreneurship11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurship can be defined as the activity of setting up a business for accomplishing
the organizational objectives. These objectives may be profits or non profits such as NGO's.
Also, this can be termed as the process of designing and launching new products and services for
the growth and sustainability of the business. Entrepreneur is a person who undertakes various
plans and strategies for the successful development of the firm in market. This study will
describe different entrepreneurial ventures and their similarities and differences as well.
Also, it will help in assessing the impact of SME's on the economic development of the
country. This report will also create complete understanding about skills and traits of successful
entrepreneurs and also reflection about personality they posses. Also, it will help in
understanding the characteristics and personality traits of the successful entrepreneurs.
LO1
P1 Different types of entrepreneurial ventures and their relation with typologies of
entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial venture can be identified as overall unit which is generally engaged in
various different kinds of activities such as Management, operation, direction, controlling and
strategic management etc. All such tasks are carried out by the person who is known as
entrepreneur (Chaston, 2017). Most of the enterprises are generally aimed at earning huge wealth
and reputation in the economic market of the world. At the same time, few firms run for the
welfare of the society and these firms doesn't run with the main motive of earning profitability.
All those business operations which involves the exchange of goods and services in response of
earning money can be termed as business enterprise. Different types of ventures can be classified
as large-scale, small scale, scalable and social entrepreneurship.
Small business entrepreneurship
There are large number of small businesses and start-ups are generally present which
employs almost 50% of all non governmental workers. Small businesses are generally operated
by own abilities. The owners of these businesses generally fund the company via friends, family
or small business loans. These business generally lies in the typology of Female
Entrepreneurship which describes that If a business may also be operated by female, it is called
Female Entrepreneurship. It is mention in the employment law that 26% seat of management is
reserve for female and they have to hire the female (Etzkowitz and Zhou, 2017). Thus, female
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entrepreneurship is related to all kind of entrepreneurial venture whether it is private or public or
voluntary. Organizations which are managed and controlled by one or more individuals for
making profits. The main purpose of these industries is the sustainability and growth of the firm
for achieving long term profits in the market. Funding can be done through individual, friends
and family. This company can invest the minimum capital of one million. For example, Turtule
Bay.
Large scale entrepreneurship
Most of the large scale entrepreneurs grow through sustaining innovation and offers ne
innovative products which may vary from their core products (Akpoviroro and Amos, 2018).
Whenever the changes in technology, customer taste, legislation law occurs then this may creates
more disruptive innovations. The main objectives of these ventures is to earn huge profits in
exchange of goods and services. These types of ventures commonly lies within Lifestyle
Entrepreneurship topology For An Example of individual who promote the concept of
Lifestyle Business favourably includes Rodrick Bodyshop. The entrepreneur who start the
business to improve his lifestyle, not to make profits. His focus is on the improvement of
lifestyle of people. This kind of entrepreneurship is mostly work in public sector because their
focus is also on the public well being and improvement of health and lifestyle of public. That is
how Public Entrepreneurial venture is related to the lifestyle entrepreneurship. Public company
which is runed by state or local government and generally owned by tax payers and voters.
Scalable business
The entrepreneurs start the scalable businesses with a particular perspective and vision of
changing the world. These businesses uses the venture capital money to generate and innovate
new ideas within the business. Such ventures generally adopts various innovations which posses
a higher scope in the future. Serial Entrepreneurship typology can be suited for scalable
business in which entrepreneurs always comes up with new idea and open the new business
(Taiwo and Olufunke, 2018). Mostly private sector entrepreneur is risk taking and ready to bring
new technology or new products for the purpose of attracting customers and making profits. For
example NHS (National health service).
Social entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurs are investors who mainly focus towards creation of products and
services which mainly helps in fulfilling the needs of society. These companies are controlled by
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the government. They offer services and do not make profits. The main purpose of this
organization is providing good quality of products to the people at affordable prices. Also , they
often offers the services such as counselling, Job training etc. which are mainly aimed at social
welfare of the people. Their primary objective is to serve society with the best quality based
goods and services. Profit making is their secondary objectives. Voluntary organisations are run
by individual and volunteers not for earning profits. They raise the funds from community or
government. Methods of funding includes the revenue derived from the voluntary services.
These are non profit organizations and the main objectives of these companies are aimed at
welfare and development of society. These organizations are generally performed the operations
for the welfare of the society which allows them to offer the hosuses for poor under under the
Parish Support which was created Poor Law in 1834 (Colombelli, Krafft and Vivarelli, 2016).
These companies are not operated for earning money. Example, (IRCM) International Regulator
of Coaching and Mentoring.
In addition to this, size of these entrepreneurial venture may depends on their funding
procedure, number of employees, scope, market and operations of business. These organisations
can be categorised as public, private and voluntary.
Private Sector Public Enterprise Voluntary organizations
Organizations which are
managed and controlled by
one or more individuals for
making profits.
These companies are controlled
by the government. They offer
services and do not make
profits.
Voluntary organisations are run
by individual and volunteers
not for earning profits.
The main purpose of these
industries is the sustainability
and growth of the firm for
achieving long term profits in
the market.
The main purpose of this
organization is providing good
quality of products/services to
the people at affordable prices.
These organizations are
generally performed the
operations for the welfare of the
society (Colombelli, Krafft and
Vivarelli, 2016). These
companies are not operated for
earning money but helps the
people in
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P2 Similarities and differences between various entrepreneurial ventures
All the business have their own set of goals and procedures for the different
entrepreneurial ventures. In addition to this, size of these entrepreneurial venture may depends
on their funding procedure, number of employees, scope, market and operations of business.
This organisation can be categorised as small scale, large scale, scalable and social enterprises.
These organisations may be sub categorised as public, private and voluntary (Ullah, Rahman
and Thompson, 2018). Differences and similarities among these ventures are described below:
Difference between small and large scale business:
Small scale enterprise Large scale enterprise
Small scale business generally range from
single proprietor enterprise. On the other hand
small business are managed by individual.
Large scale business may employs large
number of persons and also it varies according
to operations of the business (Salwa and
Sudarsan, 2018). In large enterprises all the
work is commonly managed by machines and
laboratories.
small operations are done in small enterprises. Large number of operations are performed in
large scale industries
Small businesses earn fewer profits Large enterprises earns huge profits in terms
of earning per book value.
Difference between social and scalable business:
Social business enterprise Scalable enterprise
Social enterprises are those which cannot
manage the business for earning huge profits
but they are aimed at welfare of society.
Scalable business are mainly aimed at
expansion of the business activities. And these
ventures are generally funded with angel
investor.
Social enterprises perform operations for
offering good quality of products/ services at
Operations of the scalable businesses are
mainly focussed on wider business operations.
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affordable prices to the society.
Similarities:
There are lot of similarities between all the entrepreneurial ventures which can be described
below:
 Small scale, large scale, scalable and social organisations have one of the most common
similarity that is offering goods and services to people.
 All the ventures are aimed at offering the best quality of goods/services to society.
 All the corporations set up for performing commercial business activities.
 Earning money is also one of the similarity between all ventures (Eggers and Song,
2015). Except, Social entrepreneurial ventures which might not run the operations for
earning profits but they may collect money from the community in order to sustain it for
longer time.
All the entrepreneurial ventures are mainly aimed at earning income, but the scope of all
the industries may slightly vary from each other. The main scope of Small scale and large scale
business is to promote various innovative strategies in order to promote the economic growth of
the country. On the other hand, the main scope of social enterprise is to shape the country and
fulfil their basic needs (Adeyeye, Ikupolati and Ndibe, 2018). Scalable entrepreneurial venture is
aimed at huge scope which allows them to promote innovation within this competitive world.
However, growth and development of the organisations are result in reducing the poverty and
building the society.
LO2
P3 Determining the impact of micro and small business on economy
Organisations are generally categorised into micro, small and medium sized business
according to the nature scope and profitability of the firm. Small medium size enterprises are
those whose personnel numbers are generally fallen below the certain limits. Such businesses
employ normally 4.7 million people that derives one third of the total GDP. All the business
organisations are operated with the main objective of creating huge wealth and profits. This
helps the enterprises in sustaining for long term. The role of small and medium enterprise in the
national economy cannot be underestimated. Along with this, SME's are widely accepted as
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engines of economic growth and development. Following are the ways in which SME's boosts
the economic development and growth of country:
 SME's have the remarkable ability to fuel the economic growth as these industries
provides job opportunities for the people. For about 70% of jobs on average are major
contributors to value creation (Ferguson And et.al., 2017). Also, it has been statistically
proved that Small and medium of the firm are relative to the size of the domestic
economy. They provide the main source of employment which is accounting for about
70% of jobs on average. Also, 50% and 60% of value added on average. 45% of the total
employment is contributed by the small medium enterprises.
 Also, small medium companies of UK plays significant role in rapid industrialisation and
thus contributes towards the major part of the GDP (Gross domestic product). World's
33% of total GDP is contributed towards the increased economy of the world.
 SME's of the world often acts as a cushion against the recession at the time of uncertain
situations (Sui, Baum and Malhotra, 2018). These corporations also plays the great role in
economic well fare of the society. At the Time of Brexit, when UK was suffering from a
recession period, all the small medium sized enterprises employed almost 80% of the
population which strengthens the UK in creating a new position in the economy of the
world.
 These industries also contributes towards the reduced hunger and poverty of the country
that resulted in development and growth of the region. Almost, 98204 millions of people
were employed this resulted in a reducing the poverty of the country.
 The global growth rate for last year and this year are projected at 3.40% and 3.80%.
 Increased productivity and large productivity of the firm in different sectors such as
manufacturing, development and information communication technology services
(Kuratko, 2016). More than 6000 products are manufactured.
 Today the business are adopting the vital growth in terms innovative products and
services which helps the companies in surviving in this competitive world (Adeyeye,
Ikupolati and Ndibe, 2018). currently around 6.11% of GDP is contributed by small
companies. Meanwhile, 24.63% of service sector GDP is aided for the economic
development of the country.
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 In 2014, among 40% of the total export is contributed by small medium enterprises which
resulted in huge increase in the economy of the country. SME's have also maintained the
Average growth rate of almost 10%.
P4 Importance of Small and New starts-up business in the growth of Social Economy
Small and New starts up businesses play crucial roles in the growth of Social Economy.
They are considered to be backbone for any growth of nation.
Importance of SMEs and New Starts-up businesses are mentioned below -
Reduction in poverty: Small business and new-starts up also focus on the Regional
Development. For that they do often establish their business in backward area and give
employment to local people. This will lead to reduction of poverty from country.
Wealth and distribution: Small business and new-starts up businesses are taking risks. Also,
they are well positioned to introduced new ideas to the people. This is the reason that they are
becoming successful nowadays. So all these factors leads to generation of wealth.
Employment: They play an important role in creation of employment of any country. This will
lead to reduction in unemployment rate (Le and Sarason, 2018). Creating the jobs for the people
helps them in development and thus earning money allows them to full fill the individual as well
as needs of the family. This results in the increased social status as people are able to fulfil their
needs and demands. This will lead to improve their lifestyles and fulfil their basic needs. Also,
by employment, capital generation is happening which lead to investment and savings. This all
lead to growth of economy.
Infrastructure: These start-ups and small businesses contribute towards the development of the
infrastructure within the country. As these companies makes huge wealth and profits as many of
the companies gets 5% return on the capital which is above so this result in development of the
infrastructure within country.
Social amenities: They provide better quality products and services to the public which lead to
an improvement of their health and lifestyle (Naranjo-Valencian And et.al., 2018. By providing
these products and services, they are earning huge profits which contribute to the growth of
social-economy of nation. For Example, Small and start up business generally brings new
concepts and ideas in order to fulfil the needs and requirements of the people. They offer new
products and services which meets the requirements of the society and this end up by creating a
products or services for the people. This contributes towards the economic growth of the society.
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More revenue to government: Combination of small and new start-up business with big
business create better products, more employment, huge profits and wealth creations. This will
lead to growth in social economy of nation.
Taxes and Foreign Exchange gains: New businesses have a huge scope of expansion of
business activities within other countries of the world. So it will ultimately helps in foreign
exchange gains.
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P5 Determining the characteristics, traits and skills of successful entrepreneurs which
differentiate them from other business managers
All the success of the entrepreneurs are mainly adopts on their innovative ideas and
thoughts in order to bring something new to the society (Poirier and et. al., 2017). It is via
creativity and ideas of the entrepreneurs that people across the world are enjoying the life of
luxury. Entrepreneurs have brought up innovative ideas and concepts to the world that changed
almost every aspects in reality. Today, because of the creative mind and innovative thoughts all
the human efforts are now been converted into the machinery work that have derived easy
lifestyle for the people across the world, especially via the digital economy which includes the
use of Advsnced applications, phone etc. From developing the innovative products and services
to the evolution of internet, entrepreneurs have made it all possible. Thomas Alva Edison and
Bill gates are the two most famous entrepreneurs of the world. So characteristics and personality
traits of entrepreneurs are as follows:
Characteristics :
 Not easily shaken by detractor resiliance.
 Passionate about what he do.
 Visionary and innovative.
 Well developed sense of humour.
This characteristic of the Edison helps in realising that work an entrepreneur need to
delicately done which allows them to bring creative thoughts in their mind.
In the same way, Bill gates possess very strong personality traits which motivates him to
work even harder in innovating something new in his life.
Skills
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 Innovative thoughts is one of the great personality trait of Edison in which he believes
that skills and knowledge of an individual can never be enough so always try to improve
skills and knowledge.
 He believes that it is one of the important for the creative mind to find relaxation.
Business managers only manages the activities while entrepreneurs thinks of the overall
impact of strategies on the business environment
Personality traits of Thomas Edison are as follows:
 Thomas was very dedicated towards his work which motivated him to work for more
hours. He sometimes worked for 16 hours at a stretch that gained him the reputation of
not sleeping.
 One of the main differences in their role is that Entrepreneurs are the creators and owners
of the company while Managers are employees of the company who works and paid up
for such efforts (Si, Cullen, Ahlstrom and Wei, 2018). In addition to this, entrepreneurs
are Risk takers while managers who works for salary and does not take any risk.
 Tough, his life Edison had eventually found 14 companies in which general electric is
one of the largest companies of the world. So this makes them different from managers as
they cannot takes any financial risk of investing in new products unless they are
entrepreneurs and creates the innovative ideas within their business.
Some characteristic of Bill gates are:
Growing and learning: Among several characteristics of Bill gates, this is one of important
characteristic as he thinks that growing skills of the person can never be enough.
Having vision: This attitude of the bill gate makes him a great personality as one cannot process
the correct actions without knowing the vision (Adeyeye, Ikupolati and Ndibe, 2018). Having a
clear vision makes easy for accomplishing the tasks. It was a vision that inspired him to peruse
the creation of graphical interface. He says that he always wanted more products so he expanded
its Microsoft products and still he never stops with his creativity. Bill gates integrated the ideas
of technology and developed the Microsoft applications and highly promoted its
commercialisation taking the ideas from job. Development and commercialization is the one
which makes him different from other managers.
Caring about people: He believes in perusing humanity over anything. A Successful leader is a
person who thinks about his before himself. Bill gates
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Skills
 Visionary
 Risk taker
 Creativity
 Self motivated individual
Personality traits of Bill gates are
 He believes that always posses the attitude of learning in which developing which always
end up in acquiring something new or sharing own knowledge. It will make the people
more skilled full and improves the communication.
 He believes that this is a kind of caring and empathy which causes the people to stand
behind a leader.
 He believes in becoming a great leader who not only focuses towards the goal but also
motivates the team to become more focused in accomplishing the team goals.
 On the other hand, manager only focuses in completion of the overall objectives they do
not care about the work pressure on the employees but they only follows the instructions
coming from upper authority people.
P6 Entrepreneurial aspects that reflects the mindset and Motivation of entrepreneurs
Successful entrepreneurs are aimed at development and innovation of goods and services.
So their dynamic personality traits and skills helps them in focusing towards the main goal.
These thoughts and creative ideas makes them different as they constantly put their efforts in
succeeding despite of various failures in life (Streeter, 2015). Also, creative abilities of the
entrepreneurs makes them to motivate all the team members towards the accomplishment of the
main objectives. They always make it possible as every thoughts and ideas they generate. They
not only creates the innovative thoughts but also executes such ideas. Their mindset in achieving
the goal also motivates the world to create new thoughts and innovative creativity.
The entrepreneurs' mindset is unique at the same time they are creative, communicative
and highly motivated towards the successful accomplishment of the goals. Yet they are open to
risk and failures. Self confidence and self motivation is one of the important thing that motivates
a businessman towards a willingness to take risks and innovate new product (Entrepreneurship
and entrepreneurs, 2018).
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According to the Ocean Model, there are five personality traits which derives the
personality of and mindset of the successful entrepreneur. Five personality traits are as follows:
Openness
This can be referred as the appreciation for unusual ideas and curiosity to generate the
variety of thoughts. This factor mainly reflects the degree of intellectual curiosity, creativity and
different preference which others have. This reflects the mindset and motivated behaviour of an
entrepreneur.
Conscientiousness
This factor helps in developing the skill of organised and dependable. So this reflects self
discipline which drives the planned rather then spontaneous behaviour of personnel. This factor
allows the successful entrepreneurs in bringing self control in life which motivates them to focus
towards the main objectives.
Extraversion
This factor describes the talkative nature of the people in which people generally seeks
stimulation in the company of others. This depicts the reflective personality.
Agreeableness
It helps in possessing the trusting and helpful nature of individual in which high
agreeableness is often seen as a naïve or submissive. Thus, it helps the entrepreneurs in reflecting
the motivated behaviour and mindset of entrepreneur.
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P7 Examine the background and experiences of enterprises can hinder the entrepreneurship
As the entrepreneurs are not born with this tag, they have achieved this designation by
innovation new products for the society. They need to posses the dynamic qualities and consider
various situations of the business when developing new strategies. Risk taking are one of the
primary factor when they innovate any idea or develop a new product. Despite of many failures
and lack of capital rationing, they achieved all the success in the world. Their great vision and
confidence makes them to believe that they can be able to achieve the main objectives.
For example, Bill gate was the person who possess less knowledge in technology.
Despite of strong competitors, he creates his own applications and launch it into the advanced
technology based market this product was later introduced as Microsoft. He was a college drop
out student who knows nothing about the programming languages.
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However, the family background of Bill gates is not very sound. Despite of this, he
belongs to the poor family background who cannot afford the money on even education, he
worked all the day from a burrowed computer and launched the Microsoft products into the
world.
CONCLUSION
From the above study, it can be concluded that enterprises may vary according to their
size, scope and number of employees. Different types of ventures and their scope has also been
explored here. Also, it has been discovered that all the organisations run commercial activities
according to their different aims and objectives such as voluntary corporates generally perform
the business operations for public welfare. However, objectives of public and private sector
organisation is significantly different from each other. Also, this study has created a clear
understanding about the overall contribution of small medium size enterprises towards economic
development and growth of the firm.
In addition to this, personality traits and skills of the successful entrepreneurs is identified
so that readers will understand the different in the mindset of the such famous entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, it has been also discussed that business unit consists of different business
environment which directly impacts on the business performance. Effects of internal and external
business environment may leads to decreased performance of the business.
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