Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: : Entrepreneurship has gained much prominence in both developed and developing countries and has created higher demand for entrepreneurship education. Education lay a significant role in job creation, influencing politicians to recognize and support entrepreneurial start-up activity due to its positive contribution to the economy. Entrepreneurship education has the mandate to train the youth with functional knowledge and skill to build up their character, attitude and vision. It has vital role in job creation. This paper explores the initiatives in entrepreneurship education in various parts of the world. This necessitates pro-active policy interventions in favour of entrepreneurship education, this paper tries to conceptualise the phenomenon of entrepreneurship education, starting form genesis of term 'entrepreneur', its definition, nature and new role of teachers and teacher training institutions in encourage young entrepreneurs. It also tries to facilitate an understanding about 'entrepreneurial teacher and training institution' and emphasizes the active role of teacher as a 'facilitator'. It deals with the urgency of policy interventions in India in Entrepreneurial education. In conclusion, observation of changes in the trend of Entrepreneurial education has been discussed.
Author: Dr. Aarti Diwan
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411159828