Contexts Matter
This type of context includes societal attitudes and norms, laws, and regulations influencing entrepreneurship.
What is the institutional context?
This term describes when some entrepreneurs receive recognition and resources while others are invisible.
What is privilege?
This global initiative provided micro-loans to women in rural Bangladesh.
What is the Grameen Bank?
This term refers to small-scale, everyday businesses often overlooked by researchers and policymakers.
What is everyday entrepreneurship?
True or False: Only tech startups are real entrepreneurship.
False.
Give one example of how history can affect entrepreneurship in a country.
Example: Post-Soviet countries where past informal networks still influence business today.
Give one way gender roles can affect entrepreneurship.
Example: In some cultures, women are expected to stay home, limiting their business opportunities.
Brownies & Downies is a Dutch café chain known for employing this group of people.
Who are individuals with intellectual disabilities?
A woman selling homemade food to support her family is most likely driven by this type of entrepreneurship.
What is necessity-driven entrepreneurship?
What is the definition of a temporal context.
Entrepreneurial possibilities that only exist within a given timeframe, usually dependant on historical events.
Women in rural Uzbekistan working from home because of gender norms are influenced by this context.
What is the social context?
What type of startup usually has the most access to venture capital?
Tech startup.
Humus & Habibis in Maastricht is known for supporting which entrepreneurial value?
Social entrepreneurship.
Give one reason why Silicon Valley startups dominate the image of entrepreneurship.
Example: They receive more media attention and funding.
Should we create a new term for informal entrepreneurs like Ukrainian smugglers? Give one reason why or why not.
Example: Yes, to highlight their unique challenges. / No, because entrepreneurship includes all forms.
This type of context is about physical location, like neighborhoods, regions, or border areas.
What is the spatial context?
Give one example of how privilege influences which businesses get media coverage.
Example: Tech startups get featured in newspapers, while small family-run businesses don’t.
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Why shouldn't everyone pursue everyday entrepreneurship.
Silicon Valley startups can change lives too. The freedom of choice is what matters.
Explain why definitions of entrepreneurship vary across countries.
Cultural, historical, and institutional contexts shape how people see entrepreneurship.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, rapid law changes created gaps that Ukrainian consultants used to build businesses. This shows the importance of which two context factors?
What are institutional and historical contexts?
What are some barriers marginalized groups face.
Discrimination based on gender or social position and lack of resources or familial support.
Name one example of a small Maastricht-based business that shows everyday entrepreneurship and explain its value.
Example: A café that supports sustainability and locally grown beans.
Explain why everyday entrepreneurship matters for understanding entrepreneurship globally.
It shows the diversity of entrepreneurship and includes people who create social and cultural value, not just profit.
Debate whether a home-based crocheting business is entrepreneurship, using one argument from the readings.
Yes: It’s a form of value creation in a social context. / No: It’s survival-driven and may lack innovation.