November, 2018
Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Trinidad and Tobago
Arielle John
Associate Director, Academic and Student ProgramsVirgil Storr
Board Member, Mercatus Center
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This paper aims to highlight the possibility that the same cultural and/or institutional environment can differentially affect each of the two moments of entrepreneurship – opportunity identification and opportunity exploitation. It is possible that the cultural and institutional environment in a particular place may encourage opportunity identification, but discourage opportunity exploitation, or vice versa. Specifically, this paper argues that understanding entrepreneurship in Trinidad and Tobago requires that we focus on how Trinidadian culture and institutions differentially affect both moments of entrepreneurship.