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Putting Entrepreneurship into Agricultural Economics: Research and Teaching Perspectives—Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Vincent Amanor-Boadu*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and director of The Innovation Center at Kansas State University
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Abstract

Two of the three papers presented in this session illustrate the challenges of defining the boundaries of entrepreneurship, and the other extends our perceptions about the concept to encompass interorganizational relationships. Together, they provide a reason to hope that entrepreneurship can enter the language and thinking of agricultural economists and influence our research, teaching, and outreach activities. The work presented by Ross and Westgren and Klein and Bullock provide good reference material for students and scholars interested in the evolution of economists' thinking about entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, they, like many before them, fail to address the pertinent gap in the literature: the boundary of entrepreneurship. But they can be forgiven because they make an implicit assumption about the absence of a clear boundary and proceed to address their core questions: i.e., can we teach entrepreneurship and what are an entrepreneur's rewards?

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Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , August 2006 , pp. 441 - 444
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2006

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