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Entrepreneurship – An alternate career choice for students??

In my opinion it hardly is. By saying its an alternate career option are we trying to tell the students that they can choose to work with Wipro or Infy or heck, they can do something on their own? Well entrepreneurship is not an alternate choice, its a personal option chosen by a person after having some experience to understand himself and what he wants and how he wants it.

I am immensely puzzled by the sudden trend to promote entrepreneurship in colleges through courses as a part of the syllabus. Well it definitely makes sense to learn how to draw up a business plan but thats just a part of a business course! Entrepreneurship to a large extent is about perseverance, patience, ability to take initiatives, responsibilities and myriad challenges. When such is the case how is anybody gonna teach all this in a classroom. If there was so much logic and science behind entrepreneurship that it can be taught in a classroom why are entrepreneurs still dabbling?

Well, what made me twitch was this . If I am not wrong, its NEN conducting a course for teachers to teach entrepreneurship to students. Is something grossly amiss about my understanding of things?

Is NEN sure about what its goals are? If they are out to create an ecosystem around entrepreneurs and startups, it can have tangible benefits. But pumping resource and energy into spreading and celebrating entrepreneurship at college level when nobody has any clue seems to undermine the true spirit.

Posted on 17 June '08 by Nithya Dayal, under College, Entrepreneurship, NEN, Uncategorized.

  • http://geekb4u.blogspot.com Azeez

    I just want to say one thing

    if whole world works in one way

    things in India works in another way :)

    I think U got the point.

  • http://www.muziboo.com Nithya Dayal

    :)

  • http://techsagar.com Pras

    Hi,
    When it comes entrepreneurship, I think only an entrepreneur can be a better teacher as the risk involved is more.

  • http://www.enidhi.net Shrinidhi Hande

    W.r.t our talks last saturday- Bikas Birai of iViz is the guy who raised few millions in VC for his company

    http://www.ivizindia.com/iviz/managementteam.html

  • http://www.enidhi.net Shrinidhi Hande
  • http://www.saithilak.com Saithilak

    Good point!

  • http://sparsham.wordpress.com Kumar.A.P.P

    You haven’t updated your blog/twitter since a long time. Good content, though. :)

  • http://www.arbitblog.com Pachi

    most of these attitudes are learnt through experience and environment… and feel trying out something when in college completely makes sense.. as there is lesser responsibility on your head

  • http://www.visualpitch.net Anish Achuthan

    Nithya,

    Entrepreneurship can never be taught in a class room, it can only be learned from experience. Yes NEN is trying to kill the entrepreneurship spirit among students through spoon feeding. Those were the times when we had no incubators , no angels and no barcamps / Momo….people with real passion gotinto the world of entreprenuership..the ones with the right passion took on the challenges ..wrote biz plans on ur own..they failed..failed and finally they become gr8 entreprenuers.

    But whats the situation now….u have teachers ( who have never dared to start some thing of their own or take risks in life) teaches students entreprenuership…management strategies and after the teaching you have an incubator….where u have the office space, u have a consultant who helps you write a biz plan and there’s a mentor who shows you the way ( yes..u all travel the way i came..bcoz i was a success) and then he introduces to an angel ..who puts the seed money and the story goes on.

    Entreprenuership is a calling..its a passion and best way to learn is to get into the game…fail…fail..fail and then learn from your mistakes and show the world that you can

  • Ashim

    seriously maam u r damn right!! the idea of entrepreneurship comes from within and sometimes u feel that u can do it..It really cannot be categorized as a subject. I am an aspiring entrepreneur but i need help not lectures and notes.You need information fine but u do not need the ways to implement it,it can probably make u go blind one day in ur pursuit NEN has something wrong in it>>>>>

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