An
entrepreneur whose focus is into the business of high technology is called technopreneur.
This term was devised from technology and entrepreneur. Developing and
organizing a business of a technological background is technopreneurship. The
term technopreneur was first used in 1987. The term is still in the stage of childhood.
Asian countries such as Malaysia and Singapore have adopted the term
technopreneurship even before it has become common in the western countries. Singapore
is the first country to use the terms technopreneurship and technopreneur.
An
entrepreneur is a person who starts a company offering any type of products or
services. A technopreneur is an
entrepreneur who has technological expertise along with business skills. Like
an entrepreneur, a technopreneur must be dynamic, productive, and be ready to
take challenges. A technopreneur must possess the ability to take calculated
risk as it’s all about technology.
An entrepreneur is
creative but an exceptionally creative, enthusiastic, and high-tech entrepreneur
who innovates and utilizes the brain to the maximum limit is a technopreneur.
A technopreneur is
not born but made via a process of technological training and understanding risk
factors of a successful startup.
Those
entrepreneurs, who are actually technopreneurs according to the definition,
still introduce themselves as entrepreneurs instead of technopreneurs because they
are not sure that if this term best suits them according to their
entrepreneurial endeavors. This is due to the ambiguity of the term itself, due
to lack of trust in the term, or due to the fact that the term might still be
in the stage of its infancy instead of childhood. Hopefully the term
technopreneur will blossom more and technological entrepreneurs will proudly
introduce themselves as technoprenuers.
Not every entrepreneur
is a technopreneur but every technopreneur is an intelligent entrepreneur.
Written by,
Engr. Ayesha A. Khurram
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