Toward a Typology of Entrepreneurial Activities‪.‬

ABSTRACT This paper suggests a new approach to classification in the field of Entrepreneurship. Prior efforts have attempted to classify types of entrepreneurs or types of entrepreneurial ventures. This paper suggests that classifying types of entrepreneurial activities offers some significant advantages to the other two alternatives. This paper then presents a hierarchial Typology of Entrepreneurial Activities. It identifies several "classification factors" or attributes on which entrepreneurial activities can be classified into archetypes, and identifies ten classes of archetypical entrepreneurial activities.