Ben Wubs
Comparing three Dutch international entrepreneurs in the interwar period
On 6 October 2011 “visionary” Steve Jobs, “the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who reinvented the world’s computing, music, and mobile phone industries”, died at the age of 56.951 Googling the words “Steve Jobs entrepreneur died” resulted in 53,200,000 hits within 0.27 seconds. These two sentences underline at least two contemporary views on modern economic life: first, entrepreneurship is seen as the most essential and well-nigh divine factor of economic development; and second, it is closely related to technological progress and innovation. Googling the words “entrepreneur” and “innovation” even showed more stunning results, the former resulted in 114,000,000 hits ...
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