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Entrepreneurship
Unit 1: The World of Entrepreneurship
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The ability to learn a particular kind of job | Aptitude |
| A creative group problem-solving technique that involves generating a large number of fresh ideas | Brainstorming |
| The private ownership of resources by individuals rather than by the government | Capitalism |
| The government determines what, how, and for whom products and services are produced | Command economy |
| An agreement among a group of people | Consensus |
| An individual's need or desire for a product or service at a given price | Demand |
| People who work for someone else | Employees |
| People who own, operate, and take the risk of a business venture | Entrepreneurs |
| The process of running a business of one's own | Entrepreneurship |
| The point at which the supply and demand curves meet | Equilibrium price and quantity |
| An economic system in which people have the right to make choices of what products to buy, whether to own private property, or whether to start a business and compete with other businesses (market economy) | Free enterprise system |
| Production, marketing, management, and finance | Functions of business |
| Individuals decide what, how, and for whom goods and services are produced | Market economy |
| A short written form of business communication that has a set format | Memorandum |
| One company controls the entire market | Monopoly |
| The cost of choosing one opportunity or investment over another | Opportunity cost |
| Level of output received from each worker | Productivity |
| A situation that occurs when people's needs and wants are unlimited and the resources to produce the goods and services to meet those needs and wants are limited | Scarcity |
| Evaluation of one's strengths and weaknesses | Self-assessment |
| How much of a good or service a producer is willing to produce at different prices | Supply |
| Special meeting at which companies display their products | Trade show |