Gyanodaya: The Journal of Progressive Education
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 1

Entrepreneurship Education: An Innovation Whose Time Has Come

  • Author:
  • Shikha Chaturvedi1, Pallavi Mishra2
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 17 to 25

1Education Department NAS, Collage, Meerut, UP, India.

2Integrated School of Education, Ghaziabad, UP, India.

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is a major source of employment, economic growth, and innovation, promoting product and service quality, competition, and economic flexibility. Entrepreneurship education is the process of providing individuals with the ability to recognize commercial opportunities and the insight, self-esteem, knowledge and skills to act on them. The article aims to draw the attention towards the application of Entrepreneurship in the infrastructure of education. Entreprer.eurship Education's mission is to incorporate entrepreneurship education within all disciplines, to infuse students with the entrepreneurial mindset, and encourage our members to work together to create educational opportunities to meet the demands of a global economy. The focus of entrepreneurship and innovation education and research at institutions of higher education ipso facto implies a wish to enhance the quality ofgraduateand postgraduate busine·~s venturing prospects as well as business know-how in the normally pre-entrepreneurial stage.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship Education, global economy, innovation education