The aim of this conceptual paper is to study the origin of the entrepreneur's function. We examine the construction of the entrepreneur's ‘resource potential’ (the set of knowledge, relations and financial resources gathered together by the entrepreneur) and the role of the socio-economic...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. From Term to Concept: the Entrepreneur and his Economic Function -- 1.1. Etymological and conceptual bases of the entrepreneur -- 1.2. The gradual recognition of the role of entrepreneurship -- 1.3. From a society of...