Entrepreneurship Education and Training: A Survey of Literature (original) (raw)

Entrepreneurship Education – Status Quo and Prospective Developments

This paper discusses the current state of entrepreneurship education particularly at the level of higher education institutions. Based on the premise that the main goals of entrepreneurship education are a) increasing the level of entrepreneurial competence and b) raising a positive attitude towards entrepreneurial behavior, I take stock of methods and tools that can be utilized to achieve those goals. Furthermore, based on this analysis of the status quo two trends are identified and discussed that may shape the future of entrepreneurship education. These trends are a) the tendency to narrow the scope of entrepreneurship education and to deliver entrepreneurial knowledge to specialized audiences and b) the opposing tendency to widen the scope of traditional entrepreneurship education by introducing entrepreneurial concepts to audiences that could be considered unusual from a pure business perspective.

Entrepreneurship Education: Core, Context and Challenges.pdf

Impact of entrepreneurship activities on nation building and its catalyst effect to the socio-economic development have been well-discussed topics. Governments initiated various interventions and programmes to foster entrepreneurial endeavours. Concurrently, academia also started designing and delivering structured long duration entrepreneurship education programmes targeted at young students. These days, business schools from across the world offer an array of entrepreneurship modules and programmes. The entrepreneurship modules and programmes witnessed evolution with entrepreneurship first as an elective course, added by more courses, further as concentration area, and finally as a long duration programme. In its essence, entrepreneurship education is complex due to multi-disciplinary approach, challenges of curriculum design and delivery, and issues and challenges of pedagogical tools. Dearth of entrepreneurship educators further contributes to the challenges. With the propagation of Indian academia offering entrepreneurship education programmes, current challenges confronting entrepreneurship education need to be examined. This paper endeavors to identify and classify challenges, issues, themes and different models of entrepreneurship education. Further, it revolves around, current practices of entrepreneurship education and ways to address challenges and issues of entrepreneurship education.

Entrepreneurship Education: Notes on an Ongoing Debate

Entrepreneurship education is assuming extraordinary relevance within academic programs all over the world, but there is very little known about it from a research perspective. This paper discusses the status of current research on entrepreneurship education, providing an overview of the academic debate on its main issues. The relationships between the core research issues are identified and avenues for further research are traced in order to foster the development of effective learning processes.

Topic of Research Paper: Critical Assessment of Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract: Entrepreneurship education is significant for the development of entrepreneurship and the economy. Through entrepreneurship courses students can increase the business opportunities and decrease the unemployed graduates. Entrepreneurship education is gaining its popularity day by day but it is facing problems also. This research paper aims at reviewing how entrepreneurship education affects students and the problems related to entrepreneurship education. The paper is based on literature review. The development and growth in curriculum and courses of entrepreneurship education has been noteworthy. The finding of the study is that entrepreneurship education has provided the essential change in research and teaching process. But there is an urgent need to improve and change the curriculum according to market conditions and transferring to practical teaching rather on theoretical teaching so that employment opportunities can be increased. Students should contact to experienced entrepreneurs rather depending on teachers only. Keynote: Definition, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship Education affects Students and Problems of Entrepreneurship Education.

Analysis of Entrepreneurship Education in Creating New Entrepreneurs

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge

Entrepreneurship education is held to be able to produce graduates who are not only able to work in an institution but also open new business opportunities by becoming entrepreneurs. Various methods of entrepreneurship education are provided to be able to produce new, more competent entrepreneurs, but whether the entrepreneurship education provided has been truly effective in producing new entrepreneurs in the future. Researchers want to find out about the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education provided, whether it has been proven to produce new entrepreneurs. Based on the results of the analysis of respondents responses to 8 open questionnaire items regarding the effectiveness of entrepreneurship learning in creating a new business, from 63 respondents who were students of Jenderal Soedirman University, the following conclusions could be drawn: (1) Interestingly, the entrepreneurship learning process can foster an entrepreneurial spirit and motivate respondents to run a busine...