“But, I'm not an entrepreneur” Challenges and opportunities for Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Education

“The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.”

OUR PROBLEM IS…

We do!

Wanted: better role models

The cult of the Individual Entrepreneur

HELLO?!

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Enterprise Education – the process of equipping students (or graduates) with an enhanced capacity to have ideas and skills to make them happen. QAA Guidance for UK higher education providers

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

The New Enterprise Educators Manifesto

#1 the word entrepreneur belongs to everybody

#2 entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes

#3 individuals are great but teams are insanely great

#4 practice eats theory for breakfast

#5 if it isn’t exciting it isn’t enterprise education

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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