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RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

August 24, 2010 @ 01:17 PM

Jake Adams said...

Absolutely entrepreneurship should be taught or at least more heavily referenced in schools! For one thing entrepreneurs are job creators and with the unemployment rate in double digits, now is the time to emphasize the importance of entrepreneurship. Luckily many universities are beginning to offer entrepreneurship classes and some even offer degrees in entrepreneurship. Here is an article about some of those schools: www.entreprenant.us/?p=72

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

August 25, 2010 @ 01:46 PM

Kip Marlow said...

Yes, entrepreneurship can be taught, but not in America's Universities. I question a college professor's credentials and understanding of what entrepreneurship really means. Let's start in fourth grade and have comprehesive programs through high school. Yes, it's as important as math, english, and history. If we all wake up to this absolute, we will unleash an economy that would never be matched.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

August 25, 2010 @ 10:53 PM

Victor M. Flores said...

Definitely. I am currently finishing my doctorate in Business Administration, and my business school changed its name to the School of Business and Entrepreneurship. In today's economic crisis, it is imperative that all of us do our best to improve our quality of life, and depend less on others. To an innovative mind, the sky's the limit. However, I firmly believe that entrepreneuship, should be part of every college's curriculum. It would help so many, come out of the "crisis".

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

August 28, 2010 @ 03:10 AM

Dewita Soeharjono said...

Sure entrepreneurship can be taught. For too long we're taught to work for others. It's about changing the mindset. I think we need to start early. When you're young you're not afraid to do anything, nothing really stop you from doing anything. As we get older somehow that attitude change. We're stuck in the thinking that we have to be perfect and can't fail when in fact it's okay to fail. Because sometimes you can't be successful unless you've gone through adversity, failure in life.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 07, 2010 @ 04:46 PM

C Janssen-Selvadurai said...

Absolutely! And it SHOULD be integrated into our student's curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Especially at a time like this when students are finding it difficult to land jobs after graduation, we need to arm them with the knowledge, skills and inspiration to take it upon themselves to create and/or identify lucrative opportunities on their own. I am a business professor and try to expose my students to different kinds of career paths while they're still in school. There is more to life after college than being a cog in the wheel of Corporate America.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 14, 2010 @ 12:33 AM

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I am currently finishing my doctorate in Business Administration, and my business school changed its name to the School of Business and Entrepreneurship. In today's economic crisis, it is imperative that all of us do our best to improve our quality of life, and depend less on others. To an innovative mind, the sky's the limit.

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RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 16, 2010 @ 11:38 PM

Jim Graham said...

Further on Kip Marlow's 4th grade start point....
Could you imagine kids making millions, instead of Pop Warner football injuries, and following, and the socio-economic impact THAT would write indelibly on the economy - in sharp contrast to the thuggery, cheating, drugs, and scandal of the athlete-pop-criminal persona that our society currently endears, adores, and reveres?

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 17, 2010 @ 06:47 AM

K. Rowell said...

Interesting that most commentors think entrepreneurship can be taught while most entrepreneurs I talk with say they could have been taught the mechanics of running their business but they were born with the passion to take on the risk and challenge to start their business. I am very interested in this issue - Are entrpreneurs grown or born? I am starting a project that is heavily dependent on finding people who are capable of being successful as entrepreneurs and I am wondering should we focus resources on selection or training.
The previous commentor said "we need to arm students with inspiration" and I am very curious about methods to do this.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 19, 2010 @ 04:01 AM

Tom said...

Agree....Entrepreneuship should be taught at school like English, Math and science. I can't understand why this hasn't been a subject that is required to finish school. We can only hope that our kids will learn by doing.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 21, 2010 @ 05:47 PM

John Baker said...

Yes! The basic framework and strategies can be taught. But it is up to the person if he/she will improvise to have better results.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 21, 2010 @ 06:17 PM

Nalini Vanaparthy said...

I absolutely believe that entrepreneurship can be taught. I have personally embarked on this journey. Complimenting academic and professional skils with entrepreneur skills is increasingly becoming necessary as the traditional definition of employer and employee relationship is changing.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 25, 2010 @ 12:41 AM

John said...

I would say entrepreneurship comes in your blood.If you see history, many successful and big companies were started by people who had barely been to colleges.Being a entrepreneur means sensing opportunities before others and exploiting them to the hilt.Lets take example of stock markets.The "so-called" analysts come on TV shows and talk nonsense.On the contrary, if a layman just screens out some pretty basic and fundamental things, he can create gold out of it.And there are so many examples.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 01, 2010 @ 01:54 AM

americaneducationservices said...

I think it's a way of learning that can be tremendously helpful,
but just going to business school won't be enough to make you
a good entrepreneur, either. I look at it as a good way of
keeping you from making mistakes (saving you money) and
building your network.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 01, 2010 @ 02:03 AM

mini skirt said...

it was really a wonderful topic to write on and you did full justice to the topic.
As being a management grad i can feel the things illustrated by you ,by teaching it certainly we produce better entrepreneurs and also it imbibes a zeal and also motivates us to go for it.
SIR thank you very much for writing on this type of subjects.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 03, 2010 @ 09:33 AM

pctipstricks said...

Everything in this world can be taught and so can be Entrepreneurship also. But, better from the people who themselves are Entrepreneur and not from those who only know theories.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 04, 2010 @ 11:26 PM

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Interesting that most commentors think entrepreneurship can be taught while most entrepreneurs .

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 06, 2010 @ 12:21 AM

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It was really a wonderful topic to write on and you did full justice to the topic. I absolutely believe that entrepreneurship can be taught...

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 12, 2010 @ 01:33 PM

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Yes I think it's a way of learning that can be tremendously helpful,
but just going to business school won't be enough to make you
a good entrepreneur, either. it is imperative that all of us do our best to improve our quality of life, and depend less on others. To an innovative mind, the sky's the limit.

Thumbs up :)

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 18, 2010 @ 11:56 PM

free-books-online said...

Real World experience will almost always trump academic instruction. However, it is that same academic instruction that will propell you into the part of the business world that is "right for you".

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 18, 2010 @ 11:56 PM

free-books-online said...

Real World experience will almost always trump academic instruction. However, it is that same academic instruction that will propell you into the part of the business world that is "right for you".

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 20, 2010 @ 06:19 PM

Dan said...

Yes, entrepreneurship can and should def be taught in school-starting in High School. Those who are hooked on it can go for it and those who don't care, don't go for it. Never know. This would create many success stories.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

October 25, 2010 @ 01:45 AM

network backup said...

Many governments including ours, have thrown their resources to teach entrepreneurship to young students. One of their aims is to get more younger people to be creative and start their enterprises.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

November 02, 2010 @ 04:53 PM

Bill Walker said...

Teaching entrepreneurship need a very different approach with lot of JIT lab work. Find the eyes that light up when they are given a chance to develop or build a business. Cull them out at grade 3-6. Teach them in separate schools. Have them ready to start a business when they graduate from college. Teach them to fund their schools when they succeed.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

November 11, 2010 @ 02:45 AM

garden gloves said...

Interesting that most commentors think entrepreneurship can be taught while most entrepreneurs I talk with say they could have been taught the mechanics of running their business but they were born with the passion to take on the risk and challenge to start their business. I am very interested in this issue - Are entrpreneurs grown or born? I am starting a project that is heavily dependent on finding people who are capable of being successful as entrepreneurs and I am wondering should we focus resources on selection or training.
The previous commentor said "we need to arm students with inspiration" and I am very curious about methods to do this.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

November 26, 2010 @ 08:47 AM

Vivek said...

I conducted an experiment in 2003, involving volunteer students, who wanted to become entrepreneurs. The traits and motivations were measured using psychometry instruments and then an entrepreneurship Development Program was run with the help of some experts. Volunteers were again measured for traits and motivations. To my surprise, (nay shock) the group showed a negative response to the training! I studied the whole model again, rebuild the training modules incorporated some modules using inputs from the local roots and culture, apart from other normal modules. Results were encouraging. (second time the volunteers were from technology background and had completed their graduation degree). In my opinion you can mold the correct material into high impact entrepreneurs. some people are made out to excel in other fields - do not disturb them. Do not teach Entrepreneurship to all. Expose everybody to the possibilities in entrepreneurship, but do not try to TEACH ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

December 21, 2010 @ 07:38 AM

joseph said...

Entrepreneurship is two way process that can be taught as well as inherit from the family.Sometime the Entrepreneurship is in someone blood that set up their identity in the Corporate world.I didn't get it from the family or not taught in college,I set up my air conditioning business and now i am big entrepreneur in the AC market in Florida thought my dedication and hard work

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

January 16, 2011 @ 09:33 AM

Steven Wong said...

Personally I don't think entrepreneurship can be taught in schools... the reason being that if it is taught like a school subject, it would be taught by teachers, lecturers and professors - who are probably not entrepreneurs themselves. It then becomes academic... If entrepreneurship is to be taught at all, it has to be taught by entrepreneurs solely because there is so much more than theory in entrepreneurship.

Just my 2 cents..

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

January 16, 2011 @ 04:33 PM

Dave Burnett said...

It does not surprise me in the slightest that "the study identified that highly educated individuals tend to work for entrepreneurs forced into business themselves."
Here in the UK we are taught at school that we need good grades in order to get a better job somewhere, not get good grades and then set up a business!. It is all geared around working for someone/something else, there is very little encouragement to go into business yourself hence the "25% of Europeans felt like their education sparked entrepreneurship".
In the UK our government heavily borrow and are massively in debt due to the fact there are no where near enough small business employing and contributing to the exchequer. The public sector employs more people than ever before.
I set up my Fire Sprinklers business in 2010 and now employ 5 people, i had little encouragement from anyone and even less help from the banks. To answer the question, yes anything that will encourage new start up small business is a good thing in my opinion.

Re: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

February 21, 2011 @ 12:00 AM

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February 21, 2011 @ 12:00 AM

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RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

March 06, 2011 @ 02:21 PM

David M Kilmer said...

If we can teach kids to read we can teach them to run a business . I took business management in high school .Computer information information Science in college .
Take a look at my computer repair forum I take GREAT PRIDE in my BUSINESS and my FAMILY

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

April 26, 2011 @ 10:42 AM

360Training said...

The strategies and other generic information can be taught but being an entrepreneur by heart is not. Some would consider it as a profession but others would regard it as their way of life.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 24, 2011 @ 05:37 AM

Linda Jennings said...

I absolutely agree that entrepreneurship should be taught in school, probably starting at elementary grades. This will develop the children's mind to become aware how the economic world works. At the young age, they should be taught the importance of focusing on something that can be achieve at a certain pre-defined time. Almost all schools around the world doesn't teach real-world goal settings, how to set goals and how it can be achieve. Rarely I saw students or children wrote their goals, and if they do..it's not the school teach them but it's something they inherit from their parents or grandparents. As we know, entrepreneurship is about setting goals and planning, if we can inculcate these things into the mind of our young people, certainly...they will be bold enough to face anything in their future. Progressive citizens means progressive countries... So, I definitely support that entrepreneurship should be taught in school.

Linda Jennings

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

September 28, 2011 @ 06:25 PM

Alex said...

Absolutely. I took the entrepeneurship program through the University of Victoria. Through it I was able to focus on exactly the skill set that I would need to launch my businesses. My success with my goals website is directly a result of the training and mentorship that I received there.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

January 18, 2012 @ 08:12 AM

Shabby Towo said...

In reality entrepreneur have to be trained in order to operate well their business in an effectively and efficiently way for their sustainability.They may get knowledge whether direct or indirect as well as formal or informal.
I as Marketing and Entrepreneurship student at MUCCoBS I comment that entrepreneurs should be taught.

RE: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught

July 24, 2012 @ 10:50 AM

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