Can Entrepreneurship be taught? : Case: The Lean Start-up
Jesar, Hannes (2015)
Jesar, Hannes
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201505045820
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201505045820
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The aim of this thesis was to identify whether entrepreneurship can be taught. Various commentators have noted that entrepreneurs are born and not made and this thesis had the purpose of reviewing whether educational methods and teaching could actually aid individuals in becoming entrepreneurs.
The study is an exploratory research in nature and therefore qualitative methods were used to collect data. As a result, individual in-depth interviews generated the primary data from nine responders - three Lean Start-up practitioners from different sized companies, three university lecturers and three Metropolia University of Applied Sciences students. Secondary data was collected from various literature, articles and news.
The results revealed that the entrepreneurship education is in the process of being modernised to meet the skills and knowhow needed in the current labour market. There still remains a number of traditional approaches and bureaucratic activities that do not create value in developing an individual into an entrepreneur. The main conclusion was, that the process is moving towards the Lean Start-up method which offers practical ways to activate students toward an entrepreneurial viewpoint. Furthermore, the Lean Start-up methodology helps students to validate hypotheses that are unknown and increase their rate of implementing experiments and tests. Overall, the Lean Start-up methods are approachable, practical and applicable, therefore lowering the threshold of becoming an entrepreneur.
The study is an exploratory research in nature and therefore qualitative methods were used to collect data. As a result, individual in-depth interviews generated the primary data from nine responders - three Lean Start-up practitioners from different sized companies, three university lecturers and three Metropolia University of Applied Sciences students. Secondary data was collected from various literature, articles and news.
The results revealed that the entrepreneurship education is in the process of being modernised to meet the skills and knowhow needed in the current labour market. There still remains a number of traditional approaches and bureaucratic activities that do not create value in developing an individual into an entrepreneur. The main conclusion was, that the process is moving towards the Lean Start-up method which offers practical ways to activate students toward an entrepreneurial viewpoint. Furthermore, the Lean Start-up methodology helps students to validate hypotheses that are unknown and increase their rate of implementing experiments and tests. Overall, the Lean Start-up methods are approachable, practical and applicable, therefore lowering the threshold of becoming an entrepreneur.