When the economies face the fierce shocks of pandemic such as COVID-19, the role of entrepreneurship for society is magnified. Entrepreneurship, defined as the process of starting and running a new business, is of primary importance. Entrepreneurship plays a key role, bringing jobs, incomes and value-added to society, all essential ingredients in the economic development mix, and much needed now as never before. While many new businesses have been deferred or derailed by the pandemic, others have been able to seize new opportunities, ranging across the economic spectrum from the production of pharmaceuticals to the online purchase of necessity products and services. In the aftermath of economic crises, entrepreneurial activity will drive economic recovery (as it did follow the 2008 financial crisis).