Talk:Entrepreneurship education

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"Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation do (Supposed to be "to"?) enact entrepreneurial possibilities, often in a variety of settings."

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Over the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, there has been a convergence of entrepreneur and educational styles at every level.
Regardless of the setting, the enduring (or perhaps unkillable) question is "Can entrepreneurship be taught?" The answer is "yes, but". There are people who are born with innate skills and understanding that equip them with nearly everything they need to get started as entrepreneurs, recognize what is good in their works, and fix those elements in which they are weak. Kemmons Wilson, the legendary founder of Holiday Inns, was an example, although Bill Gates of Microsoft or Pierre Omidyar of eBay are often mentioned these days. For such people, entrepreneurship education is not needed, and sometimes the resulting fights between a natural entrepreneur's intuitive sense of what is the "right way" to do something and the academic approach can result in stunting the entrepreneurial spirit.
But a Kemmons Wilson or Bill Gates is rare among the 23 million self-employed Americans (as of 2003). For most entrepreneurs-to-be, the advantage of education is that it decreases the chances of failure, by teaching the basic business functions, the best practice approaches, the skills of dealing with customers and finances, and the social networking side of business. Can this approach make a regular person into a visionary like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? No, but it can make them highly successful, and in reality even the visionaries need someone to handle the business realities. For example, Gates depended on Steve Ballmer (a Harvard graduate in Economics and Math) to handle the day-to-day operations of Microsoft, and Pierre Omidyar of eBay depended on Stanford MBA and BSEE Jeff Skoll to keep the place going while Omidyar built the original vision. Seeing the wisdom of this approach, most entrepreneurship programs use a mix of regular full-time faculty and part-time adjunct faculty (often successful current or former entrepreneurs) to teach and support each other in the classroom and in the larger entrepreneurship program. The adjuncts lend the real-world stories, expectations and heuristics (a fancy academic term for "rules of thumb") while the academics tie these together with the methods, skills and theories the students have learned in their other classes. The result is an approach which makes entrepreneurship into a professional activity.
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Networking a new generation of entrepreneurs into the twenty-first century through use of the internet is creating a global resource and a new wave of international coordination. A coordination offering business opportunities worldwide and proliferating the networking of international business interests. Bright young innovator’s working together are key to future competition and international economic growth. Young entrepreneurs contributing to global stability by expanding market connections offering a more progressive international connectivity that, over-time, will improve global stability. The networking of new business opportunities through resources such as "Young Entrepreneurs International" offering youth business opportunity to expand horizons and work together, combining the interests of the international community, China and the United States coordinating Programs such as DECA assisting young business innovators like Devon Ridley who at sixteen-years-old began doing international networking through his linking business profiles with business needs. The application of simple global networking encouraging free-trade and improving connectivity. Resources changing the face of international relations and the nature of doing business.
Some of the best resources for Entrepreneurship education can be found outside of traditional academic settings and materials. Examples of resources available on the Web include:
  • Venture Blog is a popular blog focused on financing and board level management of high technology ventures.
  • Now Whatis focused on managing the expansion phase of high technology ventures with good coverage of operational issues.
  • Jim Collins provides excellent insights for entrepreneurs, that are applicable to a wide range of different sized companies.
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-- Ddxc 19:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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Collegiate entrepreneur is up for deletion. There seems to be information there that would be better located in this article. Gtstricky 18:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)