Entrepreneurship education universities now

Netherlands all universities now offer entrepreneurship training and vocational colleges will be mandatory next year, said senior researcher Dr. Petra Gibbous. But the content is very different between the institutions and faculties - took too long to integrate entrepreneurship education and training.

Gibbous Panties, national and international decision-makers and customers to support the economic, social and conducts research in the field of transportation researcher for the Dutch company with 150 employees. According to the Netherlands, in Zoetermeer, Panties Belgium, Turkey, China, and has offices in Kazakhstan.

He Vaal University of Technology science park on October 19-21, the "Entrepreneurship Education for Economic Renewal," the eighth annual International Conference on Technology Network in South Africa in 2015, was presented.

An entrepreneur

According to Euro stat, Europe's most entrepreneurial in nature or necessity or self-employed in total employment of young Italians aged 19 to 15 have a lower proportion of young people, Gibbous said.

The ratio has grown slowly over the last decade - - Italy in 2014, 15% of this age group of young people in Europe and around 8% vs. the Netherlands and Germany, only 3% were self-employed.

It is self-employed who wish to consider a career as an entrepreneur seems to have a lot of very young.

However, 63% in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, 24% compared with 31% in the 15 and 34 year old entrepreneur who is considered among the people in Europe, 49% in 2012, Euro stat figures drawing.

Some of the research findings

According Gibbous Dutch government ministries, as well as the European Commission and business centers, including the assessment of the effects of initiatives and for others, between 2009 and 2015, numerous research projects Panties information on entrepreneurship education.

Among other things, research, education and training in entrepreneurship education Dutch higher education, entrepreneurial organization that had more to offer more integration, not found.

But this Gibbous "There are a lot of work to be done," said conference transpired.

"We strategies and entrepreneurship training schools and universities and other bodies, as well as more integrated into the curriculum to see that."

The head of the institution and the faculty is very different, because "there are some difficulties. Some only offer extra-curricular activities, while others offer the minors and majors in business education, offering master classes, summer schools and some suggestions, or need to give entrepreneurs access to students.

"We have said it is important for teachers to teach. This is a role model entrepreneurs - - is not teachers, role models, so if you want to transfer knowledge to students of business, then the teacher should be in business.

"We are in our country, based on the entrepreneurial skills of teachers in higher education institutions choose to record. So, in the last two or three years there has been an important way of thinking."

Because of budget constraints, had taken a long time to integrate entrepreneurship education into the curriculum and academics to change or unwillingness to cooperate with each other across disciplines. Institutions other than the Netherlands and, most likely, it had to fight with, Gibbous said.

There were more students who participated in entrepreneurship education. 5% of all higher education students currently in the Netherlands are somehow involved in the education business. Only about becoming entrepreneurs or start-up - - entrepreneurial skills had paid more attention to that, "There is a shift in our country."

What students say

Entrepreneurship education and research, for example, they Panties Gibbous the word "entrepreneur" and asked the students what they thought about the association.

Students the word "entrepreneur" was initiated by the association - "This is quite a large number of students was most important for". It was the second alert capabilities, "and in my opinion, is what this business is all about."

Students in the fifth, his boss, speech, planning and organizing, and a study on the "particular mindset, and not just a businessman," thought it was.

Panties research had a positive impact on the business school students found that.

Showed more entrepreneurial behavior.

Action Discussion

Gibbous contradiction between what students say and what they said. In the Netherlands, 31% of the students' desire to be an entrepreneur, if you say, "we also know that only 8% of the research to be an entrepreneur. So, there is a big gap."

To close this gap - to encourage young people more likely to become entrepreneurs they admire - as a prerequisite for creating a stimulating eco-system will be needed.

"Together they create an eco-system that" Research, together with Gibbous, has highlighted the importance of access to higher education institutions and government jobs