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Scholars have identified four different roles played by aspiring entrepreneurs in the discovery of venture opportunities. Entrepreneurs may not know it yet but one way for them to prosper would be to discover their own opportunities by being successful in one of these roles. What each of these roles has in common is that the discovery process consists of the acquisition of specific, risk-reducing information. Uncertain returns from such investments may deter them from making discoveries.

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Fiet, J.O. (2023). Informational Entrepreneurship. In: Informational Entrepreneurship in a World with Limited Insight. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16532-0_3

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