Abstract
Entrepreneurship is a French word which describes the action of undertaking a venture. However, the concept of entrepreneurship is being expressed in other words such as small business. The concept is part of a multidisciplinary approach: economy, management, psychology, sociology, geography, gender, and education. While the entrepreneur of the sixteenth or eighteenth century was considered as an industrial, an innovator, or a manager, today the entrepreneur should play a large social and economic role and most of all create jobs. This is in light with Drucker’s (1985) definition “entrepreneurship is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” Research on entrepreneurship have started with Insudtrials, Economics, and Researchers but gained a lot of interest in Management from the 1970s. Many topics have been addressed such as: the psychological profile, the opportunity concept, the entrepreneurial intention, internationalization, education, business model, intrapreneurship, social and responsible entrepreneurship, gender, and so on.
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Olivier de Serres was known also for his work in the agriculture field studies.
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Association Internationale de recherche en entrepreneuriat et PME (international association for research in entrepreneurship and SME).
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Académie d’Entrepreneuriat et d’Innovation (Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation).
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The national student-entrepreneur status allows students and young graduates integrated into an entrepreneurial project in a PEPITE. The establishment diploma “student-entrepreneur” (D2E) accompanies the status of student-entrepreneur: it allows to carry out the project with maximum security and visibility.
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Pôles Etudiants Pour L’innovation, Le Transfert Et L’entrepreneuriat (Student Centers For Innovation, Transfer And Entrepreneurship).
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Agence Universitaire De La Francophonie (Francophonie University Agency).
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Alexandre, L. (2021). Entrepreneurship. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_201-1
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