Entrepreneurship Education: Is it Possible to Teach Entrepreneurship?

Abstract

When entrepreneur in English is defined as a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take upon herself or himself a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome, it is probably not many persons realizing that nowadays this term takes a slightly difference course, especially in a capitalist society. In modern society entrepreneur is coined to some one who is able to begin, sustain, and when necessary, effectively and efficiently dissolve a business entity. The key word in this case is business, even though in fact it is not necessarily that every single activity related with 'entrepreneur' must be related to business. Based on this simple argument, this paper tries to explore the position of entrepreneurship in education. Is it possible to teach entrepreneurship in a class room, especially if entrepreneur does not only belong for business?