Why is it that research findings about entrepreneurship continue to be so disparate? Recent reviews, for example, reveal extreme variances between inputs and outcomes, conflicting empirical findings, inconsistent measures of growth, and weak research designs (Achtenhagen et al., 2010; Leitch et al.,...

Our short Dialogue challenges a stream of thought that focuses on drawing what we see as a frivolous contrast between creation and discovery view of entrepreneurship. In the former, entrepreneurs create opportunities ex nihilo; in the latter they discover them as “luggage lost at a train...