entrepreneurialism

noun

The spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.

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Meanings

nounentrepreneurialism (countable and uncountable, plural entrepreneurialisms)

plural entrepreneurialisms

  1. countableuncountableThe spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.

    The mixed-economy university in Europe seems better suited to stimulating entrepreneurialism that is linked to creativity and innovation than purely privately financed institutions.

    2008, Michael Shattock, editor, Entrepreneurialism In Universities And The Knowledge Economy, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 204
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    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.

    2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC

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