Bizstartup.ie - NewsRichard Cantillon School in September

Presentations will look at the topics such as the Danish model for entrepreneurship and the need for entrepreneurship in the public sector.

Dr Emer Ní Bhrádaigh, Dublin City University/Ireland’s Network of Teachers and Researchers in Entrepreneurship (INTRE), Breda O’Dwyer, IT Tralee and aomal Perera, INSEAD Paris/previous CEO Network 365 will also discuss teaching entrepreneurship.

Richard Cantillon School is an initiative of North and East Kerry Development and Kerry County Enterprise Board. It also receives supports from Southwest Regional Authority, Shannon Development and local interest groups.

Seminar Partners in 2010 include the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and INTRE.

The origins of the word 'entrepreneur'

Acclaimed as the “father of modern economics” Cantillon is most famous for his ‘Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General’ (or ‘Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General’), which was published in 1755.

It is in the first part of the essayi that the first known source of the term ‘entrepreneur’ is found. Cantillon describes an entrepreneur as having a distinct function apart from wage earners and people hired for labour. In Cantillon’s writing entrepreneurs were responsible for bringing about competition and the decentralisation of markets through the application of entrepreneurial decision-making and risk-taking.

More information on the event and how to register can be found here.