Enhancing Entrepreneurship and Skills Development in Higher Education

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10.2991/978-2-38476-036-7_33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Entrepreneur; Intrapreneur; Invention; entrepreneurial mindset; Innovative Education

Abstract

Improving entrepreneurship has become a multi-level social and economic imperative, since it is an effective approach to inspire individuals to develop social and economic added value that benefits society as a whole. Entrepreneurial education has become the age’s means of changing the culture of individuals and society, as well as their ways of thinking, to become entrepreneurs, who have the will and ability to transform new ideas or inventions into successful commercial projects, opening up new horizons to consider knowledge management. The main question is therefore: What needs to happen in education in order to provide a good preparation for entrepreneurship? How will the university be able to adopt new techniques in order to put over an entrepreneurial culture in its students and assist them in translating academic knowledge into real results? Entrepreneurship is defined by the traits of persons who have been labelled as entrepreneurs. These people are distinguished by their capacity to innovate, take chances, be creative, identify possibilities, and benefit from them. Many economists believe that entrepreneurship plays an important role in generating competitive societal value. In this research we will discuss how effective entrepreneurship education is and what can we do to promote entrepreneurship in higher education and what skills do students need to be an entrepreneur, and presenting some recommendations and solutions to enhancing entrepreneurship education and skills development in higher education. Therefore, in this paper we give an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the entrepreneur profile, as well as a set of activities that may be used in higher education to strengthen the entrepreneurship culture.

Research Contribution: It’s time for entrepreneurial education through university as an entrepreneurial institution, not every undergraduate has to know to be an entrepreneur, but to be an intrapreneur with an entrepreneurial mindset. Higher education institutions have a role in promoting the culture of entrepreneurship and enhance students to create an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - R. Raouf Sedky Awadalla
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/16
TI  - Enhancing Entrepreneurship and Skills Development in Higher Education
BT  - Proceedings of the Erasmus Scientific Days 2022 (ESD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 351
EP  - 361
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-036-7_33
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-036-7_33
ID  - Awadalla2023
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