EXPERIMENTS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION - SUCCESSES AND FAILURES

A survey in 1991 of 750 business schools and 226 engineering schools identified 370 universities with entrepreneurship courses. Entrepreneurship courses were taken to mean courses on business entry, whether by start-up or acquisition and whether independently or within an established organization. Descriptions of 445 courses at 177 four year colleges and universities both inside and outside the United States were generated. Of the 177 schools describing their courses, 102 (58%) gave brief accounts of pedagogical experimentation: 60 (59%) described successful experiments, 42 (41%) described new things tried that had not worked out. A summary of some of these experiments is provided and discussed