In response to society’s need for innovation and social impact, universities around the world have realized the importance and potential benefits of incorporating entrepreneurship education into their curricula. Entrepreneurship education requires a multi-disciplinary approach with a strong practicum component, involving industry partners. Technology entrepreneurship education requires strong collaboration with engineering education programs. This chapter discusses entrepreneurship education for undergraduate engineering students. Based on a systematic literature review, we identified various approaches to entrepreneurship and tradeoffs between forms of offerings, including major, minor, short courses, etc. Furthermore, we evaluated and compared the entrepreneurship education components at major institutions in the world. Since technology entrepreneurship is now a global means of sustainable development, the findings of this study may help design entrepreneurship education programs in developing countries at the undergraduate level, especially for engineering students. 

Practicum-Oriented Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Since the professional competences or soft skills have become most essential attributes of computer science and computer engineering undergraduates, we explored ways to expose computing students to entrepreneurial ideas, to spark their entrepreneurial spirit and enhance their professional competences during their studies. The paper shares our approach and experiences with heightening challenges and opportunities to computing undergraduate students as part of their learning environment via a novel path of entrepreneurship education that aims to get the computing undergraduates interested in innovation and entrepreneurship, involved with computer application problem early in their studies and concentrated in starting the computing company. Our exploratory study supports the conclusion that employing entrepreneurship educational practices that promote student innovation, creativity, problem solving abilities, and team collaboration, even on a relatively small scale at China Jiliang University, can have a significant impact on the development of entrepreneurial competences in engineering curricula nation wide.

YE-ying Jin

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Practice of entrepreneurship education in developing professional competences for computing students