entrepreneurialism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

entrepreneurial +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

entrepreneurialism (countable and uncountable, plural entrepreneurialisms)

  1. The spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
    • 2008, Michael Shattock, editor, Entrepreneurialism In Universities And The Knowledge Economy, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 204:
      The mixed-economy university in Europe seems better suited to stimulating entrepreneurialism that is linked to creativity and innovation than purely privately financed institutions.
    • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
      However, the mainstream pro-capitalist position, especially as flat-out climate-change denialism becomes less common in the ruling class, is that the invisible hand and mighty forces of ‘entrepreneurialism’ will definitely lead to the ‘fixing’ of the problem.