INTRODUCTION

Entrepreneurs are individuals who dare to pursue their vision to create new businesses, products, or services, often at great personal risk. Their innovations not only drive progress and create opportunities, but they also make an indelible and lasting impact on our society.

New ideas have always been a fundamental component of economic growth and development. Without entrepreneurs, many great leaps forward would not have taken place. A foundation of the modern world, entrepreneurship is one of the chief means of increasing levels of production, alongside investment capital, labor, and natural resources.

However, despite entrepreneurs’ overwhelmingly positive contribution to both society and the wider economy, their ...

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