The field of entrepreneurship continues to struggle with the development of a modern theory of entrepreneurship. In the past 20 years development of the current theories of entrepreneurship have centered on either opportunity recognition or the individual entrepreneur. At the same time many theoretical insights have come from economics including a rediscovery of the work of Schumpeter. However because there is a lack of clarity about the theoretical assumptions that entrepreneurship scholars use in their work, assumptions from both individual opportunity recognition and economics have been used as if they are interchangeable. This lack of theoretical distinction has hampered theory development in the field of entrepreneurship.

创业领域继续与现代创业理论的发展作斗争。在过去的20年中，当前创业理论的发展集中在机会识别和个体创业两个方面。同时，许多理论见解来自经济学，包括熊彼特工作的重新发现。然而，由于创业学者在他们的工作中使用的理论假设缺乏明确性，个人机会识别和经济学的假设都被使用，就好像它们可以互换一样。这种缺乏理论区分的现象阻碍了创业领域的理论发展。