(1335) FOOD PRODUCTION AND TRAINING CENTRE: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACH FOR EDUCATION SYSTEM IN FOOD SCIENCE

摘要

A robust entrepreneurial culture will maximize individual and social success on a local, national, andglobal scale. The entrepreneurial culture will affects the attitude that individuals have towardsentrepreneurship, the likelihood of choosing entrepreneurship as a career, the ambition to succeed, tostart again after a failure, or to set up a business. Therefore, entrepreneurship education has a keyrole to provide students the knowledge, tools, and attitudes that are required to identify opportunitiesand bring them to life. It helps students to gain insights understanding the user, working in andmanaging teams, communicating effectively, thinking critically, understanding business basics, andsolving open-ended problems. The entrepreneurial process has been embraced as a key element ofthe individual's future success and global leadership. A mixture of approaches to entrepreneurshipeducation is necessary to deliver the experiences and knowledge that lead to innovative andentrepreneurial graduates. To that end, our department has developed Food Production and TrainingCentre (FPTC) as income generating unit to provide, support and facilitate the students to becomeeffective entrepreneurs. Students have opportunity to get involved in FPTC's activities such asplanning, production, training, and community services. Four divisions have been developed in orderto achieve the mission of FPTC as a unit business i.e. division of production, division of education,division of training and division of collaboration. We found that the students who involve in FPTC areable to accelerate their capability in organizing the time. Moreover, it can develop their sense ofinitiative and a sort of entrepreneurial attitude. To enhance the sense of entrepreneurship of students,another strategy was utilized by exploring project-based learning (PBL) in education process. Studentsprepared final projects individual or groups, based on the interests of participants. Based on theassessment, we found that PBL are able to facilitate knowledge and skill development in the areas ofleadership, motivation, innovation, communication skills, teamwork and developing knowledge andskills in ways that encourage entrepreneurial behavior.