At Your Service" - Entrepreneurs as Keys to Social Locks

Abstract

This paper finds that entrepreneurship processes require keys to social locks in terms of mobility, resources, possibilities and self-understanding within and across societies. The paper draws on practices in entrepreneurship education to understand entrepreneurial roles with a view to develop awareness for collaborations which are not destroyed by envy or incapacity. The initial spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation demands linking and networking capabilities with specific partners. There is also a need for evaluating sustainability and understanding opportunities and challenges. Building of lasting institutions as containers to hold entrepreneurship spirit and enable new ideas is essential, without which no idea can have safe breeding ground that transcends the size of a person's purse or ego. The reasons and deliberations over existence and roles that entities carry need more understanding from lived experience. The idea of 'service' is usually captured through twofold stakeholding: the "provider" and the "provided". However, service as a process goes beyond this. Creating climate of trust that can work with and hold envy is important in entrepreneurship built on innovative and collaborative principles. Success needs to be balanced with capacity to hold ties with the community and larger wholes, including the use of knowing and experiencing by women as well as men