Kate's parents, Michael and Carole, are entrepreneurial examples.
Beneath the celebrated but relatively narrow entrepreneurial examples set by Rovio and Supercell, it turns out that Finland is warming up to alternative types of entrepreneurship driven by the motivation to secure personal autonomy and social impact.
His entrepreneurial examples came from grandparents on his mother's side from upstate New York.
Many of these women are now involved in entrepreneurial pursuits by example and coaching encouraging the next wave of women to excel in the high-tech world.
"People are investing in low-risk small businesses like restaurants rather than riskier entrepreneurial ventures, for example in infrastructure or technology, that require more capital and human resources.
Encouraging young people to have entrepreneurial aspirations, for example, can have a boomerang effect and cause brain drain if those aspirations are foiled by a hostile environment.
Brest says that what Emerson did in the late 1990s, at the behest of the philanthropist George Roberts (the "R" in the leveraged buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), was back small entrepreneurial ventures (for example, cafes or bike-repair shops that employed recovering addicts or the formerly homeless) and then measure — even monetarily — the effects.
Take, for example, "entrepreneurial spirit"— a value I've seen highlighted at many small and new companies over the past few years.
Locus of Control is considered to be one of the learned characteristics (McClelland, 1990; Rotter, 1966), and previous research has shown that Locus of Control (Hansemark, 1998) can change over time and can be developed with the change of social context brought about by the entrepreneurial activity, for example, at the start of a new venture.
