1. Changing the
entrepreneurship education
paradigm
Dr Abolghasem Arabiun,
Faculty member of Tehran university
Created by:Elnaz davari,
Gratuate student of Tehran University
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2. Entrepreneurship education as an aid to creating
• An enterprise culture
• A more enterprising workforce
• New ventures.
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3. Traditional entrepreneurship education paradigm
• To generate more quickly a greater variety of
different ideas for how to exploit a business
opportunity and project a more extensive
sequence of actions for entering business.
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4. New raising ideas about entrepreneurship
education
• Education for enterprise • Education through
enterprise
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5. Why produce entrepreneurs
• Job creation and economic development
• Strategic adjustment / realignment
• Deregulation and the privatization of public
utilities and state-owned enterprises.
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6. The world turned upside down
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7. Druckers (1989) ‘new realities’
• Society will need not only to accommodate
change but also to be capable of anticipating
and more importantly perhaps, initiating it.
• The way to achieve this is through
innovation.
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8. Innovation is the specific tool of
entrepreneurs
the means by which they exploit
change as an opportunity.
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9. The entrepreneurial graduate
• The education system is being required to
create people who can innovate.
• Who can see opportunity and take
responsibility for making things happen, and
in the process bring about change.
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10. ‘entreprendre’ - to undertake
• The entrepreneur is an undertaker
• Someone who undertakes to make things
happen
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11. Change agent
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12. Timmons 1989
• Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and
build something from practically nothing.
• It is initiating,doing,achieving and building an
enterprise rather than just watching.
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13. This would imply that:
• The education system needs to produce not
just people who can observe, describe, and
analyse , as has been traditional, but people
who can see opportunity , cope with
uncertainty and ambiguity , make sense out of
chaos, initiate build and achieve.
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14. The successful entrepreneur has a
set of personal skills, attributes
and behaviour that go beyond the
purely commercial.
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15. Changing the paradigm
• Proposed changes to the • Proposed changes to the
content of courses: process of learning:
• Communication skills • The left hemisphere
• Creativity skills • The right hemisphere
• Critical thinking
• Leadership skills
• Negotiation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Time management skills
• Social networking skills
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