Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54146 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/68
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the case by economists, but also an end in itself. Entrepreneurship can be a human functioning and can contribute towards expanding the set of human capabilities through being both a resource and a process. Our model shows, however, that entrepreneurship is not automatically a functioning. Where it is a necessity it stops being a valued functioning. The model also shows that even when entrepreneurship is valued, entrepreneurs may often not match their ideas with suitable opportunities. Policy implications are discussed.
Subjects: 
capability approach
entrepreneurship
human development
JEL: 
L26
M13
O12
O15
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-306-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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