a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
2. The terms entrepreneur and small-business owner are never used interchangeably.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. Entrepreneurs are the major source of innovation and job creation in any economy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
4. Entrepreneurship is more than the mere creation of a business.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. During the past ten years, new business incorporations averaged nearly 400,000 per
year.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
6. A sizeable body of research has developed that supports the individual frameworks
through the schools of thought may be particularly valuable to advancing the field
,of entrepreneurship.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
7. The entrepreneurial spirit is unique to America and Western Europe.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
8. A “gazelle” is a business establishment with at least five percent sales growth every
year for 25 years.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
9. Gazelles produce half the innovations per employee that larger firms typically do.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
10. New and smaller firms obtain more patents per sale than do larger firms.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
11. Gazelles produced 5 million jobs despite the continual downsizing in major
corporations over the last decade.
, a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
12. New and smaller firms are responsible for 95 percent of all radical innovations.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
13. Gazelles are almost always high tech.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
14. Gazelles do not always get venture capital funding.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
15. Three characteristics of an entrepreneur are personal initiative, management skills, and a
desire for autonomy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
16. Large firms, as opposed to entrepreneurs, are the aggressive catalyst for change in the world
of business.
a. True
, b. False
ANSWER: False
17. The word entrepreneur is derived from the Spanish word entreprendre, meaning “to
undertake.”
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
18. There is no single definition of an entrepreneur.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
19. Recognition of entrepreneurs dates back to the French economist Robert Ronstadt.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
20. Entrepreneurs are the major source of innovation and job creation in the economy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
21. According to Robert C. Ronstadt, entrepreneurship is the process of creating incremental
wealth.
a. True
b. False