Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship — page 3 — better Entrepreneurs need the finances to support their new ideas Setting out to create new products or services is not without risk Not all new startups survive In fact many successful successful entrepreneurs have experienced failure This very failure may be what spurs them onward to work harder and succeed at a second or third attempt There are a growing number of people interested in becoming entrepreneurs Statistics show that in the United States a new business is started every minute Some experts predict that more than half of all American workers will be self-employed by 2020 This trend demonstrates that entrepreneurship entrepreneurship and innovation are crucial for the market economy 6 Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship — page 5 — themselves by offering services or making products that others will buy These people entrepreneurs tend to be passionate about their new products or services and their efforts form the backbone of new startup businesses Entrepreneurs may in turn employ staff to help run their businesses Inventors create new methods machines and gadgets to solve old problems Innovators take these new creations and turn them into something that has economic value A single person can be an entrepreneur inventor and innovator innovator but oftentimes different people fill these roles and work together to bring a new product or service to the market Working people are important to the economy whether they work for others or as entrepreneurs entrepreneurs in their own startups Small businesses like this coffee shop depend on workers 88 Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship — page 6 — Innovation or Invention PROGRESS THROUGH INVENTION The world’s progress is largely the result of inventions inventions When the Industrial Revolution came along it was a time of great inven tion and innovation Starting Starting in England it gradually spread to other countries in Europe and eventually to the United States The creative creative process flourished as new machines new meth ods and new products blossomed Each new creation creation jump-started several more James Watt devised and developed the rotative steam engine with sun-and-planet sun-and-planet gear It is shown here in an original drawing from 1788 Inventions in the textile industry the development of the steam engine and the construction of railroads and canals for steamboats pushed society ahead to bigger and better creations Electric lights the telephone and cars were invented and they changed the way people lived This significant significant and rapid progress also changed the US economy 9

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