Turning Entrepreneurship Skills into key drivers of the Socio-Economic Status of Local Communities
Key Highlights
- Entrepreneurship involves designing, launching, and running new business enterprises to earn a profit by ensuring the best possible use of resources.
- Entrepreneurs can change the way we live and work.
- Economically, entrepreneurship helps in boosting the national income and tax revenue of a country when they earn high incomes from their operations.
Entrepreneurship is the act of seeking
investment and production opportunity, developing and managing a business
venture to undertake production function, arranging inputs for example land, labour,
materials, and capital while introducing new techniques in identifying new
sources for the enterprise.
Entrepreneurship can also be defined as a process
of creating a new business (enterprise) and bearing any of its risks, with the
view of making profits.
Entrepreneurship involves designing,
launching, and running new business enterprises to earn a profit by ensuring the
best possible use of resources. Good entrepreneurship skills in an area have a
positive impact on improving the socio-economic status of local communities in
various ways namely:
Entrepreneurs can change the way we live
and work. If successful, their innovations may improve standards of living and
help in wealth creation alongside the creation of job opportunities, and
contributes to the economic growth of a country, county, or area.
Entrepreneurship helps to drive change with
innovation, where new and improved products enable new markets to be developed
hence creating a variety of quality products in the market for the customers to
choose from thus bringing healthy competition in the market. This is done by
offering unique goods and services into the market by doing away with the old
traditions and reduce dependence on obsolete systems and technologies. This
results in improved quality of life improved good morale and greater economic
freedom.
Economically, entrepreneurship helps in
boosting the national income and tax revenue of a country when they earn high
incomes from their operations. The socioeconomic status of a community can be
improved when the entrepreneurs contribute to activities such as investing in
community projects and supporting local charities. This enables further
development beyond their ventures.