AfED Entrepreneurship in the Curriculum: South Africa for the Council for Industry and Higher Education September 2006 Dr Tony Heher, Director Associates for Economic Development (and past President of SARIMA - the Southern African Research & Innovation Management Association)

AfED Types of entrepreneurship activities There are a wide range of entrepreneurship activities which can be placed in 6 broad categories:

AfED Types of activities offered: Note: These were the main activities that were reported in the survey. Other universities may offer programmes and the listed universities may have programmes that were not reported.

AfED Exemplars of good practice Exemplars of good practice The project asked for an analysis of best practice. This was difficult due to the lack of objective indicators. Certain institutions stood out, however, as examples of good practice in one or other category of entrepreneurship education.

AfED National entrepreneurship programmes In addition to entrepreneurship education programmes in universities, there are a number of national programmes. These include:  National Innovation Fund Business Planning Competition  Brightest Young Minds student entrepreneurship initiative  Technical and Business Education Initiative in South Africa (Tabeisa)  The Big Idea business support programme  Enablis Business Plan competition  etc…

AfED Observations & conclusions  There are a wide diversity of programmes, both in and outside of universities  Little formal institutional support is evident and most programmes are relatively small  There is little formal evaluation of course impacts and outcomes  There is an active research programme, fostered by the Academic Entrepreneurship Society of South Africa (AcES) … who are in fact holding their annual meeting in Cape Town this week