Entrepreneurship
education has been widely spread over the last years at a considerable pace.
Courses are being implemented in universities, secondary schools and even the
primary schools. At the tertiary level, programmes are being developed.
Individual recently are holding masters’ degree in entrepreneurship outside the
educational system. There are courses and programmes established for specific
people mostly, for the unemployed and for minorities.
Taking into account all this widespread
development one should be considerably aware that the bases of entrepreneurship
education are solidly established. Entrepreneurship refers to the intentional
creation or transformation of an organization for the purpose of creating an
additional value through organization resources. Kuratko (2005) sees it as a
dynamic process of vision, change and creation. It requires to be taught for
the transfer of its skills and knowledge from an expert to someone else. It
involves an application of energy and passion towards the creation of an
enterprises and this include: the willingness to take risk, team work, creative
skills, fundamental skill of building solid business plan; and finally, the
vision to recognize opportunity where others fail.
Entrepreneurship education is focused on
developing youth with the passion and multiple skills. It aims at reducing the
risk associated with entrepreneurship thought and guide the enterprise
successfully through its initial stage to the maturity stage. According to
Brown (2000) entrepreneurial education is designed to communicate and inculcate
competencies, skills and values needed to recognize business opportunity,
organize and start new business venture.
Hanlon and King (1997) point out that
entrepreneurship education is an educational programme that is focused on
impacting students with issues on entrepreneurship. Positgo and Tamborini
(2007) in their study reviewed and analyzed four lines of research that
described in details this phenomenon in different countries. These include:
1. The
study of the impact that entrepreneurship education at the university level by
price;
2. The
analysis over the pedagogic instrument and methodologies used to teach
entrepreneurship;
3. The
research related to the station-of-the-art entrepreneurship education; and
4. Report
on practical experiences at different education level
Other
studies have also listed out what the contents of a good entrepreneurship
education programme that are skill-built oriented. These include: leadership,
negotiation, creative thinking, exposure to technology, invention and
innovation, opportunity identification, idea generation and protection, ability
to tackle challenges at different entrepreneurial stages, field and company
analysis.
The
middleman of entrepreneurship is the entrepreneur who possesses the following
traits:
1. Personal Attributes and Traits: An
entrepreneur should be hard working, self-discipline, confident, determined,
innovative, visioning, risk-taker and God fearing. All these traits prepare him
against the odds to success.
2. Creative Attributes or Technical
Skills: The entrepreneur requires unique skills as
expertise in communication, writing, engineering, technology, environmental
management monitoring etc.
3. Business Management Skills:
These are specific skills for decision making such as accounting/finance,
managerial, marketing/sales information and operational/logistic skills.
Entrepreneur should be able to explore his swot in his environment for survival
of competition.
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