Can entrepreneurship be taught? I think the skills that make successful entrepreneurs and small business owners can be taught. Eight Arkansas community colleges are taken action on that theory, offering a new business degree option and certificate in Entrepreneurship, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship in their September 2008 Rural Entrepreneurship Newsletter. (You do subscribe, right?)
There’s more:
In addition, the Arkansas Delta Training and Education Consortium (ADTEC) is partnering with Arkansas State University to develop a career pathway in Entrepreneurship to be delivered to 12 counties in eastern Arkansas through the ADTEC University Center, located at Mid-South Community College in West Memphis. The pathway will include multiple entry and exit points at the high school, community college, and university levels, including a certificate of proficiency, technical certificate, associate degree, and baccalaureate degree. To read more about these new programs, go to http://www.nwacc.edu/presidentsoffice/072508-CollegesOfferingEntrepreneurship.php.
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What a great question. Most (and the most important!) aspects of entrepreneurship **can** be taught. I am a firm believer. Think of what you need to know to run a company:
* Basic accounting (yep, there is a class & many books out there)
* Marketing (yep… too many books out there :-)
* Time and People Management
* Etc…
The only thing that cannot be taught…. but, that is enhanced by education, is “finding the opportunity or business to start”.
My .02.
–MT
Marco, thanks for sharing your insight. I see plenty of people with the right attitude, but lacking skills. They struggle in their own businesses.