Enhancing intrapreneurial skills of students through entrepreneurship education

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Proceedings Paper:Ward, Tony orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-8845 and Baruah, Bidyut Jyoti orcid.org/0000-0002- 4733-6156 (2014) ReuseUnless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request.Enhancing intrapreneurial skills of students through entrepreneurship education Abstract-Innovation orientation in a modern society is experiencing extensive complexity due to rise in globalization, revolutionary changes in technologies and standard of living. Intrapreneurship defined as the innovative initiatives undertaken inside an organization is an effective strategy to address these complexities systematically. Successful ideas within an organization occur due to the tireless persistence and practical imagination of intrapreneurs who are the smart innovators actively involved in the design and creation of new products, ventures and business models. Today there is an increasing global demand for such intrapreneurs and different universities are therefore adopting various entrepreneurship education and training programmes to cater to this. Pedagogy in higher education is also witnessing a significant rise in new interdisciplinary programmes specifically designed for nonbusiness students such as art, engineering, and science students so as to develop their organizational management skills. This paper sheds light on these growing trends of different University programmes and examines their effectiveness. It utilizes an indepth study of one such successful case: the MSc Engineering Management programme in the University of York, United Kingdom in its role of enhancing intrapreneurial skills of global students. This paper explores how this programme has successfully incorporated active and experiential learning tactics within its teaching modules to gradually train and build up the intrapreneurial skills for working in multidisciplinary teams and industries.

Using job advertisements to inform curricula design for the key global technical challenges

“…Authors like Baruah and Ward [3] have emphasized the need for design of Higher Education curricula to cater to different interdisciplinary programmes and develop a range of skills within the overall discipline. Ward and Jackson [4] highlighted how Higher Education engineering programmes today focus their overall learning objectives "to develop graduates who can add value to a wide range of employers giving the graduate career choice" [pg.1].…”

Investing in intrapreneurial capabilities for improved performance in state-owned enterprises

“…It involves organisations using entrepreneurial behaviour to take advantage of opportunities in the business environment. Baruah and Ward (2014) posit that intrapreneurship is 'the process whereby an individual or a group of individuals in association with an existing organization, create a new organization or instigate renewal or innovation within that organization'. Intrapreneurship leads to improved organisational performance through outcomes such as new products; improved services; increased profit and new strategic business units; increased efficiency and effectiveness; and growth (Antoncic, Antoncic & Li 2018).…”

Milyen Kihívásokkal Szembesül a Vállalkozó Egyetemen Dolgozó Intrapreneur?

“…Érdekes helyzet ez annak a fényében, hogy a világ valójában dicsőíti a vállalkozói szemléleltű munkavállalókat és létezik kutatás, ami azt állítja, hogy a vállalkozások akár 75%ánál jelen vannak ilyen alkalmazottak [11]. Az intrapreneurship elősegíti a vállalati működés rugalmasságát [32], így napjainkban egyre nagyobb a kereslet rájuk, így az egyetemek különböző képzéseket nyújtanak a hallgatóiknak és oktatóiknak, hogy az ilyen készségeiket a jövőbeli munkavállalásuk sikeressége érdekében is erősítsék [5].…”