Discovery Theories

What are the theories about entrepreneurial discovery?

 

Individual-Opportunity Nexus Theory
This is one of the newer theories, it continues to be debated along with the actualization theory lower down.

External Enabler Theory of Entrepreneurship
Perhaps opportunities are discovered with things change in the external environment.

Alertness Theory of Entrepreneurship
This theory is often used by authors making economic arguments about entrepreneurs.

X-Efficiency Theory of Entrepreneurship
This theory is for the hard core 'quant' that trusts the numbers above all else.

Actualization Theory of Entrepreneurial Opportunity
This one starts with the hope of Maslow, but ends up sounding a lot more like the nexus theory.