• (Current version of a descriptions of the proposed minor: minor_short description.pdf)

While the specifics of the minor are clearly important, there are some broader issues about teaching, entrepreneurship, and the role of the university that are relevant and fit in well with some of the themes we have considered in past sessions of the seminar.

The sampling below will hopefully provide us sufficient range for a lively discussion. Pat and I will concentrate on topic 1) but you might also be interested in topic 2)

1) One question often raised about entrepreneurship programs is whether you can (or should) "teach" entrepreneurship. This question has several facets.

First, is entrepreneurship as state of being (entrepreneurs are born not made) or as set of knowledge and processes that can be learned (as was suggested in the Drucker book)?

• (Magnus Aronsson, "Education Matters - But Does Entrepreneurship Education? An Interview with David Birch," Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2004, 3(3) p 289-292.: Birch interview AMLE 2004.pdf
• Benson Honig, "Entrepreneurship Education: Toward a Model of Contingency-Based Business Planning," Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2004, 2(3), p258-273: Honig paper AMLE 2004.pdf

Second, many of the concepts and practices of entrepreneurship fall out side the realm of traditional fact and process based education. For example how do you "teach" creativity, dealing with failure, or leadership? Can these be taught while conforming to the universities requirement for academic legitimacy?

• Dean Shepherd, Educating Entrepreneurship Students About Emotion and Learning from Failure," Academy of Management Learning and Education, 2004, 2(3), p274-287: Shepherd paper AMLE 2004.pdf,
• Patricia Pukkila, "Introducing Student Inquiry in Large Introductory Genetics Classes," Genetics, 2004, 166 p.11-18. Pukkila education article.pdf

2) One major element of the CEI minor is the extensive use of entrepreneurs in the class room. What are the considerations in expanding academe to include practitioners?

• Hopkins, T, and Howard Feldman, Changing Entrepreneurship Education: Finding the Right Entrepreneur for the Job," Journal of Organizational Change Management, 2004, 2(3) p 28-40. changing entrep ed.pdf)