Entrepreneurship and enterprise skills: A missing element of planning education?

Nurturing and Transferring Entrepreneurship in Thai Business Families

“…Gibb (2005) broadens the expected skill-set to include creative problem solving, persuading, negotiating, strategic thinking, and networking. Additionally, Frank (2007) identifies a mixture of traits, knowledge, and skills comprising of-first, awareness and knowledge of enterprise and entrepreneurship that supports entrepreneurial activities; second, creativity, imagination, and a mindset; third, necessary business skills such as writing up business plans, starting up a venture, and retaining key customers (Kirby & Humayun, 2013). Freytag and Thurik (2007) highlight propensity to take risk and self-confidence.…”

Synergies between geography, planning and vocationalism in curriculum development and implementation

“…Indeed, this study mirrors broader international research which highlights the disparity between current students' preference for an emphasis on vocational skills and graduates who are a few years out from completing their degrees and more readily acknowledge the importance of more analytical skills (Guzzetta & Bollens, 2003;Poxon, 2001). Importantly, these analytical skills are also emphasized by employers (Frank, 2007;Stubbs & Keeping, 2002), despite what students may claim. Our challenge then, when implementing new planning curricula, is to highlight to students When asked to identify subject areas overemphasized within the degree students, environmental studies/biophysical environment (72 per cent), human geography (31 per cent) and resource management (28 per cent) are identified (Table 5).…”

“…Second, many of our geography and environmental management graduates gained employment as planners. Third, there was a well-documented shortage of planners across Australia and interest from the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) in increasing the capacity to produce qualified planners [a similar trend is observed internationally (Frank, 2007)]. Fourth, key staff in human geography identified the synergies between existing human geography curricula and planning and were willing to develop these synergies further.…”

A partnership-based model for embedding employability in urban planning education

“…Further training may be required in the longer term as planners move from initial technical jobs to dealing with complex political issues. Third, employability is not only a skill; it is also a mind-set of the individual practitioner (Frank, 2007). In other words, the outward expression of employability skills -e.g.…”