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Entrepreneurship is a process where one involves in designing, planning, and running a business with the aim of making profit despite the presence of risks in every business venture. The people who started the business are called entrepreneurs, while those who manage the business many not be the entrepreneurs themselves but managers of the business. Business involves various aspects that require organizing, planning, forecasting, and execution skills. Each of these fields requires strong and good decision-making to make a business a success. There are several scales of entrepreneurship, namely, microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), nongovernment-linked companies (Non-GLCs), government-linked companies (GLCs), and multinational companies (MNCs). A healthy-growing enterprise helps an economy to thrive as there are job creation and more employment opportunities when businesses flourish. Entrepreneurship is a required skill in every nation, and it has...
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Chea, C.C. (2020). Quality Education: Entrepreneurship. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95870-5_17
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