Entrepreneurship Education: Notes on an Ongoing Debate (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.

Advances and Challenges in Entrepreneurship Education

Journal of Small Business Management, 2013

Recent global economic crisis has increasingly demanded bold action from organizations. If these organizations fail to respond appropriately, entrepreneurs will develop new meaningful solutions to the complex and dynamic needs of the market. Guidance of many of these future entrepreneurial leaders falls on the shoulders of those in higher education. My goal in this paper is to suggest a shift toward a more enacted approach in the delivery of this guidance. This suggestion represents my own interpretation, is not generalizable in all environments, and should therefore be viewed with caution.

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.

New horizons in entrepreneurship education

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the complexity and heterogeneity of entrepreneurship education. In order to achieve this objective, this paper combines educational psychology with perspectives from entrepreneurship education research to make explicit educators tacit assumptions in order to understand how these assumptions guide teaching. Design/methodology/approach-Using ethnographic analysis, the paper reports data from the continuous development and implementation of a single course over a period of ten years bringing in the educator's and the students perspectives on their achievements and course content. Findings-The authors find that it is sometimes advantageous to invoke and combine different learning theories and approaches in order to promote entrepreneurial awareness and mindset. It is also necessary to move away from entrepreneurship education as being teacher led to being more student-centred and focused on experiential and existential lifelong learning practices. Practical implications-Practically, the authors make suggestions for the design and delivery of a course that demonstrates how four diverse learning theories can be combined to consolidate entrepreneurial learning in students invoking experiential and curiosity-based learning strategies. Originality/value-There are very few examples of concrete course designs that have been researched longitudinally in-depth using ethnographic methods. Moreover, most courses focus on the post-foundation period, whereas this paper presents a course that is a primer to the entrepreneurial process and exclusively centred on the pre-foundation phase. Rather than building on a single perspective, it combines a range of theories and approaches to create interplay and progression.

Entrepreneurship Education And Research: Emerging Trends And Concerns

Journal of Global Entrepreneurship, 2011

Entrepreneurship has gained much prominence in both developed nations and developing nations and has thus created higher demand for entrepreneurship education. There is increasing emphasis on education as a way to eradicate poverty and entrepreneurship as a catalyst for economic development by many nations around the world. In tandem, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education have been the focus of researchers, educators as well as public and private bodies. This paper explores the initiatives in entrepreneurship education in various parts of the world through content analysis of journal articles and websites on the subject in order to identify emerging trends and concerns. It describes efforts at the national and international levels to produce entrepreneurs and enhanced entrepreneurship training in countries such as China, , South Africa, Ireland and Malaysia. In the conclusion, observations of changes in trends are discussed. The paper aims to contribute to the understanding of entrepreneurship education and training and is especially relevant in the area of course design.