Abstract
In addition to institutions like private property, contract, and competition, "but also all conduct to be followed by individuals failing to meet with organized resistance", Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) considers the movement as consubstantial with the capitalist society. It will identify a 'force'; an individual initiative. This is materialized by the figure of the entrepreneur and has become canonical in economic theory and it developed in 1911, in Theory of economic development. The Schumpeterian entrepreneur is responsible for the action that is the innovation, and has an agent or contractor. In an attempt to clarify the remarks of Schumpeter, we describe contractor, reserving the term contractor to the two aspects combined (company + contractor-agent). Far from being the lone cowboy facing the 'borders' and the resistance of society, or the brilliant inventor tinkering in his garage, the contractor agent assumes multiple profiles which have a biological basis. Not everyone can become an entrepreneur. Finally, the Schumpeterian theory, far from being neutral or objective have some attribute, based on a vision of man and men. Not everyone is entitled to a creative action; the routine is the norm for the mass.
