Advances and Challenges in Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

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.Jeff Vanevenhoven is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Wisconsin -Whitewater.

From the Zoo to the Jungle – Narrative Pedagogies and Enterprise Education

“…Despite the many views on the 'how' of entrepreneurship education, there is convergence of opinion that the traditional didactic pedagogies are not sufficient, with a preference being expressed for those that are action-based and experiential in nature (Gibb, 2002;Cooper et al, 2004;Kirby, 2004;Heinonen and Poikkijoki, 2006;Pittaway and Cope 2007;Blenker et al, 2008;Vanevenhoven, 2013). Indeed, Haase and Lautenschläger (2011) indicated the need to desist from simply teaching knowledge on business creation and that learning by doing and experiential learning are appropriate modes for instilling entrepreneurial 'know how'.…”

“…. .the proper place to study elephants is the jungle, not the zoo' and more recently to the invitation put forward by Vanevenhoven (2013) '. .…”

Innovation development in Russia: the value aspect

“…Many developed countries that have been forced to make technological and social changes in their education process still debate about issues concerning the necessity to integrate into the current universities' curricula aspects related to educating enterprising, creativeminded, innovation-oriented graduates. Of greater importance is this issue for engineering education that strives both to carry out advanced scientific and technological research and to deliver new products and technologies in order to meet the society's needs and priorities [2,3,4]. Universities are becoming increasingly aware of the need to educate engineers who are capable of designing new products and services, are creative in their activities, possess skills and competences to identify and meet both social needs and market demands [5,6].…”

“…Though the number of experiments and research papers on entrepreneurship and innovation education in western countries has increased [4,7,8,9], they have failed to provide a comprehensive list of competences a student should acquire to be prepared for entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented activity. The papers describe mainly some specific practices of entrepreneurship training [10,11,12], with a special emphasis on particular skills and features of entrepreneurial, creative or innovative activities, rather than representing those competences as a comprehensive integral structure [13,14,15].…”

Análise envoltória de dados e análise de componentes principais: uma proposta de medição do desempenho de organizações hospitalares sob a perspectiva de Hospitais Universitários Federais do Brasil

“…No contexto da prestação de serviços de saúde é inquestionável o importante papel desempenhado pelos hospitais de ensino (VANEVENHOVEN, 2013). Neste sentido, Ozcan et al (2010) ressalta que a eficiência de cada umas das unidades hospitalares e o alcance dos objetivos planejados constituem os parâmetros utilizados para a distribuição dos recursos, visto que são financiados principalmente pelo Ministério da Saúde, assim como pelo Ministério da Educação.…”