Entrepreneurial education refers to the process of equipping individuals with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and succeed in entrepreneurial endeavours. It encompasses a range of educational activities and programs that aim to foster entrepreneurship, innovation, and business creation. Entrepreneurial education can take various forms, including formal academic programs, workshops, seminars, boot camps, online courses, and mentorship programs. It can be offered at different educational levels, from secondary schools to universities and beyond. The goal is to nurture and support individuals in their entrepreneurial aspirations, whether they aim to start their own ventures or apply an entrepreneurial mindset within existing organizations.
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Nurturing Students' Entrepreneurial Mindset: A Design Thinking Approach
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8781-5.ch018
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that education and training play a significant role in the growth of entrepreneurial mindset. By participating in the entrepreneurial design thinking boot camp, students were exposed to the design thinking process, through its five steps, which are empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. This study uses a qualitative technique to obtain access to individual students' boot camp experiences to investigate and comprehend the boot camp's program effects on entrepreneurial mindset. The design thinking approach sparked students' interest in embracing an entrepreneurial mindset, as seen by their reflection report. The results of the study show that the students' learning process took place throughout the boot camp, and it was followed by a degree of growth in their curiosity, motivation, inner drive, initiative, creativity, and critical reflection. To stay up with the ever-changing business landscape, new educational techniques are needed to offer students with the skills and attitudes that employers today appreciate.