This paper considers the freedom of each and every one of us to choose to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities – that is, to practise entrepreneurship – should we wish to do so. Drawing on the Capabilities Approach, a novel conceptualization of entrepreneurial capability is put forward as the individual freedom to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity within one's environment. In shifting analytical attention away from empirical cases of entrepreneurs (that is, those identified post hoc with successfully pursuing an entrepreneurial opportunity) and exploring the potential (or otherwise) of any individual to pursue entrepreneurship in theory, we are forced to ask what is specific about entrepreneurial opportunities and whether they can be pursued by anyone. Our resulting conception of entrepreneurial capability introduces seven universal and necessary conditions for this distinctive type of freedom to be present. The significance of this conceptualization of entrepreneurial capability for entrepreneurship theory and economic and human development policy is discussed.ud
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机译:本文考虑了我们每个人自由选择追求创业机会(即实践创业精神)的自由。利用能力方法,提出了一种新的企业家能力概念,将其作为在环境中追求创业机会的个人自由。在将分析注意力从企业家的经验案例(即那些在事后确定为成功追求创业机会的案例)转移开来,并探索任何个人在理论上追求企业家精神的潜力(或其他方式)时,我们被迫提出具体的要求关于创业机会以及任何人都可以追求的机会。我们由此产生的企业家能力概念为出现这种独特类型的自由引入了七个普遍的必要条件。讨论了这种企业家能力概念化对创业理论以及经济和人类发展政策的重要性。 ud
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