entrepreneurial \entrepreneurial\ adj. 1. of or pertaining to an entrepreneur or entrepreneurship; as, entrepreneurial risks. [WordNet 1.5]
2. willing to undertake a project requiring initiative and involving risk, for one's own purposes; -- of people. [PJC]
Even his charities are entrepreneurial.
His is a breed found more rarely among British executives whose entrepreneurial zeal seems to crumple in the corridors of corporate HQs.
Both states are pinning their hopes on small business. "Ultimately, it will be entrepreneurial programs that will help revive the economy," says Iowa Gov. Terry E. Branstad.
Mr. Devani's story is no ordinary tale of entrepreneurial perseverance.
"Growth can kill," says Gerald E. Hills, director of entrepreneurial studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
It is usually more significant when a dominant entrepreneurial founder/director buys or sells.
Even when it was strictly a state enterprise under the control of CAAC, China Southern behaved with remarkable entrepreneurial vigor.
Corporate interest has sparked a flurry of entrepreneurial activity.
The entrepreneurial revolution created many successes, such as H. Ross Perot, who themselves are investing in new ventures.
"We get a lot of entrepreneurial people working here, who sometimes want to try setting up their own business," explains Mr. LeBaron.
Then a headhunter so extolled her entrepreneurial qualities and trained intellect that a meeting was arranged.
In fact, many of the texts assume that in underdeveloped countries there is an insufficient supply of entrepreneurial talent to propel them forward and so the government must plan.
It aims to raise Pounds 750,000 to expand through an entrepreneurial BES issue, sponsored by Wise Speke.
Founders are entrepreneurial, single-minded and intolerant of bull.
We just aren't productive enough," he said. "We need more entrepreneurial activity." The company will trim up to 45,000 of its 285,700 workers by the end of next year.
Mr Berlusconi represents entrepreneurial success and television soap opera culture; Mr Spaventa, a Fellow of All Souls at Oxford, is a brilliant intellect with a technocratic background.
It claims to be the only major accounting firm with a separate entrepreneurial services division.
Consolidation is leaving behind new banking niches, and in parts of the country where the economy has been strong, entrepreneurial financiers are trying to fill them.
A growing number have become self-employed or work for the fast-growing private start-up companies. The Czechs are slower, more cautious and less entrepreneurial than the Poles, who have taken to capitalism like a duck to water.
The majority of the entrepreneurial class is in favor," and the steps are also in the labor unions' long-term interest, he said.
"It relied on a professional team that came in to execute someone else's ideas." Mr. Doerr insists, however, that some of Dynabook's hired managers did have an entrepreneurial stake, and he doesn't see any special lessons in its problems.
Many New Englanders continue to believe the region's strengths, such as its high education levels and entrepreneurial tradition, will enable it to get back in the economic fast lane sooner or later.
Indeed, some surveys show that morale and employee performance is highest in small, entrepreneurial firms, where fringe benefits often are limited.
Launching several new centers and institutes, including ones for entrepreneurial and Islamic studies, and spending millions to repair deteriorating buildings and construct new ones.
And more fundamentally, less entrepreneurial effort is offered when tax rates are too high, thus reducing the entire schedule of income earned by potential investors.
These days, small and entrepreneurial food concerns trying to field new products and brands are being blown off the battlefield.
Karl Vesper, a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and a leading expert on entrepreneurial education, says some newly appointed professors of entrepreneurship call him and "want to know what the field is all about."
But a shift by the company toward managing its position in various markets, as opposed to managing individual products, eventually moved Mr. Kramer out of direct entrepreneurial control.
A Beverly Hills native who started his business career selling exotic used cars when he was in his early 20s, Mr. Sugarman showed an entrepreneurial spark when he went to Italy to buy a Ghia automobile and came back with exclusive dealership rights.
A new crop of economic-development programs with an entrepreneurial bias has sprung up as a result.