Challenges Facing Entrepreneurship Education

In my last blog, Entrepreneurship Education: Unlocking Potential, I wrote about the key success factors of entrepreneurship education.

Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills are core components to building socially inclusive and highly participatory economies in an increasingly global and competitive world.

Innovation and economic growth depend on being able to produce future leaders with the skills and attitudes to be entrepreneurial in their professional lives, whether by creating their own companies or innovating in larger organizations. It is imperative to develop entrepreneurial skills, attitudes and behaviours in school systems (primary, secondary, higher and vocational education) reaching across all ages as part of a lifelong learning process.

Entrepreneurship Education: Unlocking Potential

Interest in entrepreneurship education has grown dramatically around the world in the past 5-10 years. Schools, universities and other training organizations have increasingly been integrating entrepreneurship into their programmes. In addition, national governments and international organizations such as UN, OECD, the European Commission and others have begun to put a greater focus on entrepreneurship education.