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Explore Kuratko's 12th Edition of "ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORY, PROCESS, PRACTICE" for a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the entrepreneurial mindset and successful processes, including trending topics like design innovation and bootstrapping. The accompanying MindTap™ Learning Suite offers hands-on activities to sharpen your entrepreneurial skills, guiding you to become a future industry leader.

Chapter 1 – Entrepreneurship: Evolutionary Development-Revolutionary Impact
This chapter is important because it examines the different schools of thought, processes, and frameworks surrounding entrepreneurship as it develops into a field of study. It is becoming a dynamic, developing discipline that is discussed as an element of an entrepreneurial mindset. Myths of entrepreneurs are covered. (Kuratko, 2024)

Chapter 2 – The Entrepreneurial Mindset in Individuals: Cognitions, the Dark Side, and Ethics
This chapter covers the individual entrepreneurial mindset with concepts of cognition and metacognition when viewing opportunities and making decisions. Several studies have been conducted to determine personal traits and qualities of successful entrepreneurs. This chapter focuses on these qualities. (Kuratko, 2024)

Chapter 3 – The Entrepreneurial Mindset in Organizations: Corporate Entrepreneurship
This is an interesting chapter that explores the process of profitably creating innovation in an organizational setting by applying entrepreneurship. Some companies are realizing valuable employees are leaving to start their own small businesses. Innovative companies are working to facilitate and develop ways of keeping the talent in-house. (Kuratko, 2024)

Chapter 4 – The Global Entrepreneurial Mindset: Social Entrepreneurship
This chapter explores the challenges entrepreneurs face when determining how to be a social entrepreneur. This has emerged in the 21st century as a major issue as obligations that small businesses have to society as well as large organizations. Social entrepreneurs seem to be change agents that create large-scale change and address root cause of social problems for systemic changes. (Kuratko, 2024)