Educating Multi-disciplinary Student Groups in Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned from a Practice Enterprise Project

摘要

The target audiences for entrepreneurial university studies are most often students of differentfields of business studies, or economics; entrepreneurship studies are a part of their normalcurriculum. Entrepreneurs, however, are not a group that consists only of businessprofessionals, but a group of people from all walks of life. The basic procedures and lawsgoverning the starting of a company are most often same for all companies and individuals. It isimportant to acknowledge these two facts, when designing curriculums for university studies:basic courses in entrepreneurship (starting a business) are important for students of alldisciplines. This paper reports experiences from educating multi-disciplinary student groups inentrepreneurship, presents preliminary data about student background and attitudes towardsentrepreneurship, and discusses some lessons learned from the experiences.