Identifying Knowledge, Skills and Abilities of Successful Entrepreneurs

Abstract

There are a lot of significant functions for society and economy young enterprises are accountable for. Schumpeter (1950) named economic growth, innovation, and creative destruction. Therefore, the entrepreneur, the founder of a young enterprise, is an important object of entrepreneurship research (Rauch & Frese, 2007; Zhao & Seibert, 2006). Questions like whether there are specific skills, knowledge, attitudes, personality traits, or dispositions that distinguish entrepreneurs from other people or that support their success guided entrepreneurship research (Lang-von Wins, 2004; Walter & Walter, 2009).