The Alert and Creative Entrepreneur: A Clarification

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Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (the FSF-Nutek Award). In this Prize Lecture he argues that a number of those who have commented on his work have misunderstood certain aspects of his theoretical system, and as a result the common distinction in the literature between “Schumpeterian” and “Kirznerian” entrepreneurs is flawed. He also argues that his understanding of the market process (set in motion by entrepreneurial decisions) provides a theoretical underpinning for public policy vis-à-vis entrepreneurship. Professor Kirzner’s main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship were also presented and evaluated by Douhan, Eliasson and Henrekson (2007).

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 760

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Methodology: Other ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Austrian ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
• Subject: Austrian economics ; Economic development ; Entrepreneurship ; Small business economics ; Entrepreneurship-Ansatz ; Kreativität ; Unternehmenserfolg ; KMU

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kirzner, Israel M.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81491