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To cite this document: Gerald Vinten, Steve Alcock, (2004),"Entrepreneuring in education", International Journal of Educational
Management, Vol. 18 Iss: 3 pp. 188 - 195
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Introduction
Entrepreneuring in
education
Gerald Vinten and
Steve Alcock
The authors
Gerald Vinten is based at European Business School,
London, UK.
Steve Alcock is based at National Federation for Teaching
Entrepreneurship UK, London, UK.
Keywords
Entrepreneurs, Small to medium-sized enterprises,
Creative thinking, Secondary education, Youth training
Abstract
Encouraging entrepreneurship has become an accepted
wisdom in economic management and government policy. It
could only be a matter of time before the world of education
was invoked as a means of furthering this end. Business
schools have not made the most incisive contribution
possible, and there is a significant expectations gap. So as we
cascade down to the secondary level, efforts are being made
to improve matters. The initiative of the National Foundation
for Teaching Entrepreneurship is outlined, and research
results relating to impact are provided. This is a systematic
and comprehensive approach, which started in the USA and
has currently spread abroad. It has been well received, and is
a suitable means of planting seeds that may come to fruition
in later life. It is an action learning approach, which is an
excellent vehicle for teaching business studies. It has proved
itself in widening access to under-privileged groups.
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Conclusion
With global competitiveness, it is a matter of all
possible hands to the tiller, and no economy can
afford to neglect to nurture the talent residing in
its midst, especially that from non-traditional
and disadvantaged groups. Without this, no
amount of government policy intervention will
succeed in bolstering up the SME sector. For
those who do not choose, or find no opportunity
or funding to set themselves up in their own
business, there is the opportunity to serve as an
intrapreneur in someone elses company, and
maybe to have the part one serves in spun off, as
for example, as a management buyout. Strategic
Business Units were traditionally set up to bring
an element of entrepreneurial attitude with a
larger and maybe bureaucratic organisation.
Research and Development departments,
although supposedly highly creative, can
become routinised and providing made-to
measure services. Permitting backburner
projects, possibly the pet projects of an
individual, to continue in the background is a
way of having one cake and eating it.
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