Question Bank in E &NVC

2/ 3/5 Mark Questions

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What is Entrepreneurship?
Define innovation?
Serial Entrepreneur
What is business idea?
Define business opportunity?
What is business plan?
What are the three major implications of cognitive theory applicable to an
entrepreneur?
8. What are the different forms of innovations?
9. What are the short term and long term objectives of networking?
10.Classify different types of networks of an entrepreneur.
11.How does the entrepreneur keep the networks alive? OR What are the
strategies to keep networks alive?
12.Network compensation hypothesis
13.Dark side of Entrepreneurship.
14.Differentiate Risk and Uncertainty.
15.What are the traits of an entrepreneur as per the Traits Theory?
16. Elaborate the type of entrepreneurs on the basis of Short range and Long
range risks17. Desribe the following:
a. Sinking the Boat Risk
b. Missing the Boat Risk
18. Describe the following:
a. Craftsman entrepreneur
b. Opportunistic entrepreneur
19.What the factors of demographic influence on entrepreneurship? Elaborate.
20.Explain Goal-Achievement theory relating to entrepreneurship.

Big Questions
1. Explain entrepreneurial motivations. What motivates a person to become an
entrepreneur?
2. Elaborate entrepreneurial competencies.

3. What are the risk taking attributes of an entrepreneur? Elaborate. OR How

Cognitive theory helps in evaluating Entrepreneurial risk? What are its
implications on the entrepreneur?
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of entrepreneurship?
5. How innovation is important for entrepreneurship?
6. What are the sources for business ideas and how do you generate them?
7. How entrepreneur was viewed upon in the history of Economic Theory?
8. What constellation of forces acted as growth engines in promoting
entrepreneurship in the 20th and 21st centuries?
9. What are the things that excite an entrepreneur? OR Can we predict a
potential entrepreneur on the basis of traits? Substantiate
10.Differentiate entrepreneurs from non entrepreneurs on the basis of cognitive
theory. What is the value of Cognitive theory on Entrepreneurship?
11. How the information advantage is utilized by an entrepreneur in opportunity
identification? Discuss. Or Discuss the information model of entrepreneurial
discovery.
12.Describe creative destruction with a few examples. What are the triggers for
creative destruction?
13.How can you promote innovation in an organization? Make a few suggestions.
14.Describe the different styles of networking by an entrepreneur. How the style
is different for the major firms from that of small business owners?
15.Describe Risk and Time implication in entrepreneurship. Distinguish
entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs on Risk-Time implication.
16.What are the different sources of business ideas?
17.Discuss briefly the methods for generating business ideas.
18. Elaborate Human Cognition and its implications on entrepreneurship.
19. Describe the factors responsible to behave entrepreneurially by any
entrepreneur?
20.What are the major differences between Business Angels and Venture
Capitalists?
21.Elaborate Discrepancy Theory and Entrepreneurial Satisfaction.
22.What are the various points where family and entrepreneurial
dynamics intersect? Elaborate on the basis of the available research
literature.
23. Why the Business Plan is not always written?
24.What is the role of the Business Plan in Venture Capital decision making?

25.Describe the applicability of principal-agent analysis to the relationship

between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur.
26. Elaborate the role of trust and cooperation in the investors initial screening
of potential investment opportunities.
27.How the entrepreneur acts at a given time and place depends heavily on the
rules of the game- the reward structure of the economy that happen to
prevail. In the light of this statement, elaborate the allocation of
entrepreneurship between productive, unproductive and destructive activities.
28.Define Entrepreneurial culture? Suggest the methods for promoting
entrepreneurial culture in SMEs.
29.Define Intrapreneurship? What are the personal motivations of intrapreneurs?
30.Woman entrepreneurs differ from their male counterparts in risk propensity
orientation. Elaborate the statement on the basis of the existing research
literature.
31.What according to research are the key findings of Human
Cognition with implications for the study of entrepreneurship?
32.What are the short term and long term objectives of
networking?
33.Why the business plan is not always required to be written?
34.Explain how the Principal-Agent relationship fits in to the
relationship of the Venture Capitalist and the Entrepreneur.
35.Discuss entrepreneurial risk behavior based on risk horizons,
future orientation and risk propensity.
36.Discuss the nuisances of employing family members in the
family businesses.
37.Discuss entrepreneurial competencies.