Chapter 13: Economic Perspectives: Influences and Impacts

  • Explore entrepreneurial activity from an economic perspective.
  • Identify the contribution made by the main economic research approaches, and related research evidence, to our understanding of entrepreneurship.
  • Understand the relationship between entrepreneurial activity and performance outcomes, including economic growth, innovation, and competitiveness.
  • Recognise how entrepreneurship can become unproductive or destructive.
  • Evaluate economics-based evidence and relate it to findings obtained from other research perspectives.
  • Apply these insights to your own experiences of entrepreneurship.