Teaching entrepreneurship at non business schools: a reflexion

• Autor(es): Caseiro, N. ; Alberto, D.
• Data: 2013
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/2063
• Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Assunto(s): Education; Entrepreneurship
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

In the last years, entrepreneurship education has increased in importance and presence on the curriculums of different degrees and domains, and is gaining the attention of higher education institutions as well as secondary schools and training centers. Although the mainstream focus of entrepreneurship is new business creation, it can be argued that there can be a wider application, namely in intrapreneurship and social entrepreneurship, typical subfields of study in the entrepreneurship realm. This vast possibility requires that education institutions strategically choose the focus of their approach regarding entrepreneurship education but they can also propose a curriculum that encompasses all this. Also, this option will enable students to obtain the tools that will allow them to build their path. The present paper aims to reflect on the choices made at entrepreneurship courses that are taught at non-business schools in higher education institutions. An issue regarding the prevailing business orientation is that non-business students can feel excluded or not attracted towards entrepreneurial education and its importance because it’s not their work field. Finally, based on several years of experience in teaching entrepreneurship, we discuss some problems that are experienced.