Many students in developing country graduate from university jobless,lack of creativity and skills.
As many university teach student in every subject their special subject oriented without knowledge or skill specified subject on entrepreneurship.
I need your expert opinion and reference on :
Do university produce worker or entrepreneur?
Most universities degrees can lead one to do both the roles, depending upon one's interest. As dear Nageswar has said, one can make use of the incubation center services provided by most universities for fine-tuning one's entrepreneurial skills. Of course that will depend upon the area of one's interest and the availability of facilitation of skills in that area at the incubation center. If one does not want to go for that, then one can work after obtaining the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities in one's course of study and become a worker. We are all workers, as we sell our labour.
Dear Dony
This depends on the country
The university, according to the area, be prepared to be a worker because he has a job easier and faster payback . To be an entrepreneur, in Brazil, it is necessary to have a high reserve money that is spent on: various types of licenses, several types of taxes. As if all this were not enough, the person needs to spend more money on the "work" of specialized people to "facilitate" (corruption) the authorization of the opening of the company Furthermore the taxes have to be paid for the operation of the company are very high . All this makes it difficult for many people to be entrepreneurs . Brazil is one of the world countries that charge higher taxes
Entrepreneurship is not part of any course curriculum. The course curriculum in UG studies will be controlled by the accreditation agency and as such will not normally part of curriculum. The emphasis is always to provide the working knowledge required in the specific domain. However universities do have science parks and incubation centers where the budding student if he/she is interested can always utilize the services of the university to grow his/her ideas. Universities will provide special courses in Entrepreneurship as extension series or electives for people interested.
See an example here:
http://www.fvtc.edu/training-services/business-industry-services/customized-training-services/category/small-business-entrepreneurship
Most universities degrees can lead one to do both the roles, depending upon one's interest. As dear Nageswar has said, one can make use of the incubation center services provided by most universities for fine-tuning one's entrepreneurial skills. Of course that will depend upon the area of one's interest and the availability of facilitation of skills in that area at the incubation center. If one does not want to go for that, then one can work after obtaining the requisite knowledge, skills and abilities in one's course of study and become a worker. We are all workers, as we sell our labour.
Most universities degrees may lead one to tend to create worker or entrepreneur. This depends upon the university courses and the students abilities..
The primary focus of universities is usually not directed at building entrepreneurship, unless it is a Business Management, Business Administration, Finance or related course. In general, I think that engendering the forces of entrepreneurship depends much on the educational climate of the university. Institutions that place high value on innovation, risk-taking and creativity would naturally encourage budding entrepreneurs. If this is also accompanied by an emphasis on collaboration, networking, management, communication and adaptability in order to stay updated and with a willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn, it creates an environment that becomes highly conducive to the spirit of entrepreneurship.
As my previous thread in researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_engineering_or_science_students_need_to_learn_management.
Concern come out of engineering especially information system graduate, they finish with their undergraduate or graduate study but still stay jobless.
I agree with @monica said about university main focus is not directed at building entrepreneurship as Prof. Nageswara and Prof Debi said that enterpreneurship is not part of curriculum.
But can we design a curriculum based on entrepreneurship so every university graduate can have their own business doesn't have to be an employee but to create and be and employer .
If its not part on main focus or universities curriculum isn't to be concern that university or higher education teaching learning is as same as high school graduate creating worker or labour to a company(its good if high skill and high managerial position what if it is contrary of it)
Thank you Prof. Adel and Prof Kamal to remind recall again as enlightenment and manufacture of knowledge not as producer of worker.
Dear Adel
I think Dony divided all working people into two categories i.e. either they work for themselves; or for someone else. He saw the latter category as workers that includes knowledge workers too.
@ Adel. I am in full agreement with you that universities are not places for mass producing workers. Academic institutions are places for enlightenment, community building, and long term economic development.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity." - Peter Drucker
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