http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/03/27/examining-entrepreneurs-at-the-bop Comments for "Examining Entrepreneurs at the BoP" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/03/27/examining-entrepreneurs-at-the-bop#comment-24257 I am an RA at a private university, and I preside over 13 freshman who have volunteered for a special "Entrepreneurship" Freshman Seminar. In this group, there is almost always a tendency for the kids (I'm not much older than them, by the way) to be confused by teh course's title--the seminar leader spends most of his time talking about things relating to the Creation Theory, not the Discovery Theory. In other words, Discovery Theory stuff is mostly taught in the Business Department of my school, and these kids thought that was what they were going to get! I think they get the better end of the deal... we spend the whole semester just talking about what it means to BE an entrepreneur, rather than HOW. Awesome stuff.<br class="clear" /> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:31:52 -0500 Chris Crawford comment 24257 at http://www.nextbillion.net http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/03/27/examining-entrepreneurs-at-the-bop <p><p style="padding: 5px; float: left;"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/BoP Protocol2.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image img_assist_custom" width="152" height="114" /></p>The <a href="http://www.sevenfund.org/">Social Equity Venture Fund </a>(S.E.VEN) has just invested $100,000 to research the age-old question of what factors lead some entrepreneurs to success and others to failure, only this grant is one of the few to support research on this topic in the developing world.<br /><br /> S.E.VEN has awarded this money to Harvard poverty expert <a href="http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/kremer">Michael Kremer</a>, as a part of a total of <a href="http://www.sevenfund.org/contests/rfp-2008-contest.html">$400,000 that it has invested</a> in researchers working on enterprise based solutions to poverty. Kremer&#39;s study will look at entrepreneurs in both Kenya and India to &quot;understand who these individuals are, what in their environment contributes to their development as entrepreneurs, and social, institutional and personal barriers to further growth.&quot; These two countries were chosen because &quot;most of those subsisting on less than a dollar a day live in South Asia and Africa.&quot;<br /> <br /> Clearly, there is something different about entrepreneurship in these environments or there would be no reason for studying them in addition to all of the research that has been done on entrepreneurship in more formal markets.<br /><br />(This post continues past the break; click &quot;Read More&quot; to continue)</p><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/03/27/examining-entrepreneurs-at-the-bop">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/03/27/examining-entrepreneurs-at-the-bop#comment Business Development Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:57:08 -0500 Grace Augustine 5354 at http://www.nextbillion.net