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LC Unit 2
Enterprise Key Terms and Examples
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An entrepreneur is | A person who spots an opportunity and takes the initiative to set up a business to make money from that opportunity |
| Two characteristics of an entrepreneur | Risk taker and Self-motivated |
| Four skills needed by enterprising people | Human relations, time management, Planning and decision making |
| An intrapreneur is | an employee working within a business who shows enterprise |
| Gmail was created by | an intrapreneur in Google |
| What type of risk does an entrepreneur take when setting up a business? | Financial and Personal |
| Two examples of famous entrepreneurs | Steve Jobs and Richard Branson |
| What is meant by the term "entrepreneurship" | It involves using your initiative to identify some need and then taking the steps to satisfy that need |
| Enterprising business people are rewarded by | profit |
| Enterprise is important in the Community because | it creates jobs and business for local people |
| Intrapreneurs | do not take such a high degree of risk |
| Enterprise in the Home | Parents converting an attic used for storage into a study for their daughter so that she will have a place to study for her Leaving Cert |
| Enterprise in School | A teacher organising an after-school drama club and putting on an end-of-year play |
| Enterprise in the Community | Neighbours getting together and organising a committee to clean up their area and entering it for the Tidy Towns competition |
| Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking that involves | new ideas |
| Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking that involves | Observing opportunities and needs |
| Which entrepreneur was the founder of Microsoft? | Bill Gates |
| What is an invention or creation that is brand new? | Innovation |