Entrepreneurship education: A Glimpse on Select Entrepreneurial Educational Intuitions in India

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is a crucial approach to a country's economic development. Instilling Entrepreneurial personality, skills should begin in educational institutions. Entrepreneurial qualities must be systematically developed among students to attain the desired results. Many research demonstrated that the present education system has failed miserably in developing entrepreneurial skills among students. Some institutions offer explicit entrepreneurship education to students who desire to start their businesses. Students choose these entrepreneurial educational institutions with specific business goals in mind and obtain the desired results. The current study is being undertaken to gain a glimpse ofselect Entrepreneurial Educational Institutions that are exclusively working towards developing an entrepreneurial mindset, intention, personality and skills among students. Data will be obtained from students enrolled at select entrepreneurship institutions via questionnaires to understand the realism of entrepreneurship educational institutions. The Stratified sampling technique is used to select samples and the sample size chosen is 100. The reliability test has been conducted to find out the reliability of the responses received from the respondents. The descriptive statistics using the SPSS are applied to find out the mode, standard deviation and variances of the responses collected. Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, Educational Institutions, fostering entrepreneurship