Which skills are essential?
How to motivate students for entrepreneurship?
I think the best way is to provide opportunities for students to meet and interact with success stories in the entrepreneurship domain. This will launch students on the path. Then, a good step would be to engage students in workshops and training opportunities on basics of business skills for entrepreneurship. Additionally, competitions and startup weekends can be a great start for students to showcase their ideas and receive positive feedback to mold and develop their ideas.
It is not easy to be an entrepreneur. As a person, it is undertaken because there is a need to obtain income when one is not working in a dependency relationship. Then people who have already established a formal business can identify new business opportunities. the more places and societies are visited, opportunities can be identified.
Lecturers are to teach it in such a way that it will be practical so that it can be easily applied after or before school.
I believe Entrepreneurship is highly dependent of the environment. I've been working with entrepreneurs from violent and poor urban slums in Mexico, and I've found out that Shapero's Entrepreneurial Event Model is a great framework to develop Entrepreneurship Potential.
The entrepreneur needs to feel capable of doing the core activities (Self Efficiency) and this depends on how developed his life plan is, and which capabilities he needs to improve to get there. But he also needs to be inspired by his environment (His community) , supported by his/her close circle (Norms), and to be able to have access to financial, intellectual and physical resources (Institutions).
E.g. For students in one of the most t violent neighborhoods in Mexico, life is full of uncertainty. So, our first step is help them find the passion that drives them forward (Using some material related to the Ikigai flower), once they know where they want to get, we help them understand their environment, so they start with an exercise of analysis oriented to "market research", where they use tools like SWOT, Empathy Map, and Design Thinking approach to understand their community, and to start honking their abilities as entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, we bring successful entrepreneurs or personalities from their local area to help them perceive that can start a business too.
These two steps (Life Plan and Community) are mainstream, all youngsters have them and it helps us to measure entrepreneurship potential in them (Not everyone is good or wants to be an entrepreneur) and it helps us build the second phase: Idea generation. At this point, out of 80 students you might end with 5-12 people interested (Well hopefully more, but Mexico is another reality). Here we let them choose their own project and we make them move out of their confort zone. They have to go and meet people from industry, ask in government institutions for regulations and paperwork regarding their idea, meet potential clients (big and small clients) and to have a look at what's happening in the industry worldwide. Again with Design Thinking and HCI tools they build a business model (I recommend BM Canvas for this) and it ends with a sales abilities workshop (I recommend combining virtual lessons and real life practice, not just to pitch in front of their classmates).
After that, Potential Entrepreneurs become Intentional Entrepreneurs and they have to prototype their ideas, here you act as an intermediary for knowledge transfer, business intelligence and fundraising, but each of them have to go on market on their own (You might end with 1-3 people going to market here).
I hope you find this useful for comparison, depending on the environment all this changes (Like, in Mexico, fundraising and security are a huge problem for entrepreneurs), and if you have questions please let me know.
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