Entrepreneur: n. person in effective control of commercial undertaking;
one who undertakes a business enterprise, with chance of profit or loss...
(Concise OED).
For those of an etymological bent, the word apparently derives from the
French 'entreprendre' i.e 'undertake', which of course has a rather
worryingly morbid meaning that I am sure is not intended....?
>Nick and others,
>isn't it interesting that the council (or was that the president?) feels it
>necessary to adopt a metaphor from capitalism to describe a key
>characteristic desired of the new Annals co-editors. I will have to go
>take a look at my copy of the OED to see what kind of permutations there
>are to the term 'entrepreneurship'... if any cgf'ers out there have ideas
>about what might be meant by the phrase, i'd be keen to hear them.
>lawrie
>
>>What, precisely, is 'intellectual entrepreneurship', I wonder?
>>
>>"The Association will seek as Annals editors five
>>accomplished individuals who share the AAG Council's
>>vision of an accessible, decentralized, representative, and
>>collaborative Annals--individuals committed to intellectual
>>entrepreneurship that ensures that the very best work being
>>done in the subfields for which they are responsible appears
>>in the Annals."
>>
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>>N i c k B l o m l e y
>>
>>Associate Professor
>>Department of Geography
>>Simon Fraser University
>>Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
>>CANADA
>>
>>(604) 291-3713 (tel)
>>(604) 291-5841 (fax)
>>[log in to unmask] (email)
>>
>>http://www.sfu.ca/geography/faculty/blomley.htm
>
>
>Dr. Lawrence D. Berg
>Department of Geography
>University of Victoria
>PO Box 3050
>Victoria, BC
>Canada V8W 3P5
>
>Facsimile: (250) 721-6216
>Telephone: (250) 592-2278
>
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwglobal/Berg/LDB.html
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N i c k B l o m l e y
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
CANADA
(604) 291-3713 (tel)
(604) 291-5841 (fax)
[log in to unmask] (email)
http://www.sfu.ca/geography/faculty/blomley.htm
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