What could entrepreneurship education (EE) be? What role could Universities play in EE? What life long learning could mean in EE context?

1. Entrepreneurship education (EE)
New frontiers
September 2016
Ari Manninen

2. Goals of this presentation:
-what EE could (also) be
-what could Universities do on EE arena

3. Educational system
First: let us break 2 very basic assumptions
Basic assumption

4. First: let us break 2 very basic assumptions
Basic assumption

5. Could it be much more than EE education?
What could be the big picture where University would use
its strenghts?
First: let us break 2 very basic assumptions
Basic assumption

6. Someone is teaching something to someone else
Someone is creating a setting where learning happens
Someone is learning by herself

7. Entrepreneurs Wannabe
entrepreneurs
General public
Customers for University
EE

8. Is the goal EE also to improve circumstances for Entrepreneurs to succeed?
?

9. Education is the process of facilitating learning (wikipedia)
Speed of learning
Fast
The role of EE in these situations?
stagnant

10. Someone is teaching something to someone else

11. What is the topic of EE at different point of life?
Are all topics relevant for EE?
Are all topics covered now?
The scope of succession (generational change) from the
point of EE?

12. Role of EE Role of EE Role of EE

13. Someone is teaching something to someone else
Someone is creating a setting where learning happens
Someone is learning by herself
What determines which direction companies move?
-profitability, capability (operational), wisdom (strategic)

14. Entrepreneurship education:
focuses on the development of skills or
attributes that enable the realization of
opportunity, where management education
is focused on the best way to operate
existing hierarchies.
Wikipedia

16. Perhaps University should break free from the the role of EE educator.
Could University also be active in other roles of EE:
-work to develop setting where learning happens
-support, quide and(notice) self learning
-create and clarify big picture – roles of different players
on the field of entrepreneurship

17. Ari Manninen
Director of Executive Education, Avance
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
ari.manninen@jyu.fi
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