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ENTREPRENEURSHIP – a national cross-cutting imperative

Achiever 2003 Issues 7 (Cape Media) Entrepreneurship cuts across all sectors and all subjects. It is a value system, a life skill. It should be given the status of a critical national imperative! Resources should be poured into the establishment and support of intrapreneurs in institutions and entrepreneurs creating jobs. This is the vision, passion and work of the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship which provides entrepreneurship teaching materials to schools and trains entrepreneurs to run successful businesses. The Institute has produced entrepreneurship...

Learning to ride the entrepreneurship bicycle in the classroom

Entrepreneurship is recognised as a driving force for growth and success. But if we understand it to be a mindset, an ethos, how can we teach people to be entrepreneurs, and what are the positive outcomes of so doing? Margie Worthington-Smith, MD of the South African Institute for Entrepreneurship, presents a refreshing philosophy. Turning teaching on its head Entrepreneurship is not science. Rather, it cuts across all sectors and all subjects. It is a value system, a life skill. Where traditional subjects...