Importance and significance of growth of entrepreneurial activities

The man behind the entrepreneurship is an action-oriented and highly motivated individual who is ready to achieve goals.

Kirzner (1973) observes entrepreneurs as; “one who perceives what others have not seen and acts upon that perception”. Thus, entrepreneurs take the economy and the society that is the whole civilization to the state of progress and prosperity. Taking this into consideration we can describe the significance or importance of entrepreneurship which is stated below.

9 importance of entrepreneurship are:

• Growth of Entrepreneurship.
• Creation of job opportunities.
• Impact on community development.
• The consequence of business failure.
• Political and economic integration of outsiders.
• Spawns entrepreneurship.
• Enhances the standard of living.
• Promotes research and development.

1. Growth of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship the advent of new venture particularly small ventures to materialize the innovative ideas of the entrepreneurs.

Thus, the growth or establishment of small enterprises ii the specific contribution of entrepreneurship in every economy of the world.

The statistics reveal that in USA economy nearly half a million small enterprise is established every year. Our country is not an exception in this regard.

2. Creation of job opportunities

Entrepreneurship firms contributed a large share of new jobs. It provides entry-level jobs so necessary fur training or gaining experience for unskilled workers.

The small enterprises are the only sector that generates a large portion of total employment every year.

Moreover, entrepreneurial ventures prepare and supply experienced labor to large industries.

3. Innovation

Entrepreneurship is the incubator of innovation. Innovation creates disequilibria in the present state of order.

It goes beyond discovery and does implementation and commercialization, of innovations.

“Leapfrog” innovation, research, and development are being contributed by entrepreneurship.

Thus, entrepreneurship nurses innovation that provides new ventures, products, technology, market, quality of good, etc. to the economy that increases Gross Domestic Products and standard of living of the people.

4. Impact on community development

A community is better off if its employment base is diversified among many small entrepreneurial firms.

It promotes abundant retail facilities, a higher level of homeownership, fewer slums, better, sanitation standards and higher expenditure on education, recreation, and religious activities.

Thus, entrepreneurship leads to more stability and a higher quality of community life.

5. The consequence of business failure

The collapse of the large industry almost has irresistible damage to the development of the state and the state of the economy and the financial condition of the relevant persons.

The incumbents lost their jobs: suppliers and financial institutions face a crisis of recovery.

Customers are deprived of goods, services, and government losses taxes. This could not happen in the case of failure of entrepreneurship.

There shall be no measurable effect upon the economy and no political repercussions too.

6. Political and economic integration of outsiders

Entrepreneurship is the most effective way of integrating those who feel disposed of and alienated into the economy.

Minorities, migrants, and women are safely integrated into entrepreneurship that will help to develop a well-composed plural society.

7. Spawns entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the nursing ground for new inexperienced adventurists.

It is the field where a person can start his/her idea of the venture, which may be ended up in a giant enterprise. All the large industrial ventures started as a small entrepreneurial enterprise.

Therefore, entrepreneurship provides a wide spectrum of ventures and entrepreneurs in every economy. The vast open arena of entrepreneurship thus acts as an incubator to entrepreneurs.

8. Enhances the standard of living

The standard of living is a concept built on an increase in the amount of consumption of a variety of goods and services over a particular period by a household.

So it depends on the availability of diversified products in the market. Entrepreneurship provides enormous kinds of a product of various natures by their innovation.

Besides, it increases the income of the people who are employed in entrepreneurial enterprises.

That also capable employed persons to consume more goods and services. In effect, entrepreneurship enhances the standard of living of the people of a country.

9. Promotes research and development

Entrepreneurship is innovation and hence the innovated ideas of goods and services have to be tested by experimentation.

Therefore, entrepreneurship provides funds for research and development with universities and research institutions. This promotes the general development, research, and development in the economy.

Entrepreneurship is the pioneering zeal that provides events in our civilization.

The role and significance of an entrepreneur are explained below :

1. Bringing Economic Growth and Prosperity: Entrepreneur bring economic growth and prosperity in the country through generation of employment opportunities, capital and wealth creation, increasing per capita income and GDP, improvement in quality of life by raising the standard of living, growth of infrastructural facilities, forward and backward linkages in society, development of backward regions, economic independence. George gilder observes, “The ‘heroic creativity of entrepreneur came to seem essential to our economic well-being in a global economy”. Baumback and Mancuso write, “In underdeveloped nations, entrepreneurs often hold the key to economic growth for a whole society. So entrepreneur is not a dirty word or a fast buck opportunist, but, rather the backbone of the capitalist system”.
2. Brining Social Stability and Balanced Regional Development: Entrepreneurs play a crucial and unique role in bringing about social stability and balanced regional development through absorption of workforce in industries, removal of poverty, improving health and education facilities, creating fair competition, equitable distribution of income, creation of social infrastructures, empowering women and weaker sections of the society and supply of qualitative goods and services Although entrepreneurs are criticized as self interested exploiters, Adam Smith, while recognizing that they do some good for society, partly reflected this view when he wrote in The Wealth of Nations: “In spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their convenience, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the thousands they employ be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable desires they are led by a hidden hand, and without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of society”.
3. Innovator in Economic Growth: by bringing new ideas, combinations, products techniques, organizations, new markets, making full use of technical knowledge, balanced growth, systematic innovation, technological advancement, implementation of mechanical skills, an entrepreneur play very crucial role in encouraging entrepreneurship and economic development. Peter Drucker writes, “Just as management has become the specific organ of all contemporary institutions and the integrating organ of our society of organizations, so innovation and entrepreneurship have to become an integral life-sustaining activity in our organizations, our economy, and our society”. He further says that the emergence of a truly entrepreneurial economy is the most significant and hopeful event that have occurred in recent economic and social history.
4. Creation of Employment Opportunities: Entrepreneurs play a significant role in generation of employment opportunities by establishing new units in manufacturing, trading and service sectors, laying emphasis on small scale industries, utilizing the surplus labour force in varied industrial and/or service activities, upholding self-employment as a core objective. Entrepreneur integrates resources and technologies into profitable business ventures and creates job opportunities.
5. Increase Productivity with Modern Production System: Play an important role in raising productivity. John Keudrick writes, “Higher productivity is chiefly a matter of improving production techniques, and this task is the entrepreneurial function par excellence”. Two keys to higher productivity are research and development and investment in new plant and machinery. But there is a close link between R & D and investment programmes, with a higher entrepreneurial input into both”. George Gilder in The Spirit of Enterprise said that: “Entrepreneurs are innovators who evoke demand’. They are makers of markets, creators of capital, and developers of opportunity and producers of new technology. They seek the unique product, the marketing breakthrough, the startling new, feature or the novel design. They change technical frontiers and reshape public desires. They create wealth and employment. They take exception to the received view that companies should be market led. They lead the market”.

6. Export Promotion and Import Substitution: Liberalization, privatization and globalization [LPG] has opened the arena of export promotion and import substitution to entrepreneurs by establishing industries producing import substitution goods, establish new industries, especially for export, products, exploration of new global markets, earning foreign exchange reserves, utilizing the available productive resources, achieving self-reliance in production of as many goods as possible, entrepreneur, are playing a pivot role in export promotion and import substitution.
7. Entrepreneur Plays a Role of Catalytic Agent: As Joseph Schumpeter says, entrepreneur’s task is “creative destruction”. He destroys to create new things. He changes and transmutes values. He searches change and responds to it. He is a change creator. Ralph Harwitz writes in his book Realities of Profitability’, “The entrepreneur makes a happening, wants piece of action, is the growth man. Without him there is no happening, no action, and no growth”.
8. Augmenting and Meeting Local Demands: Entrepreneurs also play a significant role in augmenting local demands and meeting them satisfactorily. Towards this entrepreneurs focus their attention to manufacture service through indigenous technology, skill, resources and experiences.