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Entrepreneurship Education

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 deli...

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Main Author: Joshi, Rajiv
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Summary: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 pedagogic al 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 endeavours to identify and classify...
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