Original scientific paper

Teaching entrepreneurship conceiving an abortive university course

João M. S. Carvalho orcid.org/0000-0003-0683-296X ; Maia High Education Institute, Avioso S. Pedro, Portugal

Abstract

The rich world is in crisis as it has achieved an era of abundance. This has resulted in the lack of economic growth and high unemployment rates. Though a new economic mentality is a priority, it must be supported by policies of entrepreneurship which enable a new wellbeing for a growing population. However, there are currently too many employees and too few entrepreneurs. Since there is an Accreditation Agency in Portugal which assesses new proposals of Higher Education courses and because we believe that Entrepreneurship can be taught, we have created a new graduate course fundamented on this vision. Unfortunately, after having worked for nine months to conceive this Entrepreneurship course, it was not accepted because the team of public evaluating professors disagreed on the likelihood of teaching/learning how to become an entrepreneur. In this case, while politicians and social forces speak about Entrepreneurship, the Academy is conservative and defends that university must prepare students for the labour market. Hence, the aim of this paper is to share the manner in which an Entrepreneurship University Degree can be conceived.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship; High Education; Teaching Methodologies; Competencies; Learning Outcomes

Hrčak ID:

130391

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/130391

Publication date:

1.12.2013.

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