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Entrepreneurship trajectories

Abstract

The assumption that entrepreneurship is a practice, a process, or a journey has driven us to investigate—using a backward approach—the performances that entrepreneurs can achieve, the business models that they can set up and implement, and the types of opportunities that they can exploit.

After reviewing these aspects and obtaining generally shared results, it is possible to formalize and catalog entrepreneurship trajectories. In this case, according to a forward approach (cumulative), the drawing of entrepreneurship trajectories begins from entrepreneurial opportunities, passes through the business model, and reaches performance. As a result, three entrepreneurship trajectories can be drawn: flat, incremental, ...