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  1. Entrepreneurship Education Above All Needs to Shift from "Teaching" to "Learning"

    It has been about 30 years since people began talking about moving "from the instruction paradigm to the learning paradigm." Below I quote a passage that briefly explains the two. Yet much of what is called entrepreneurship education or entrepreneur education is still conducted mostly within the instruction paradigm…

  2. The Limits of Entrepreneurship Classes and the Role They Should Play

    Not many people say that a class changed their life or that taking a class made them change careers. Take entrepreneurship: even Stanford University's entrepreneurship class has not been shown to increase the number of entrepreneurs. Also, just taking a class…

  3. Increasing the Number of Potential Entrepreneurs

    I previously wrote an article arguing that a shortage of entrepreneurs is a challenge for the startup ecosystem. A point often raised in connection with this number of entrepreneurs is that. For example, in 'Is Japan a Difficult Country in Which to Start a Business?', it is pointed out as follows...

  4. The Importance of Practical Communities for Entrepreneurship

    That sounds right, but "" does not sound right. However, if we replace traditional performing arts with "", it starts to sound at least somewhat right. So what is the difference between traditional performing arts and baseball? It is a commun…

  5. Entrepreneurship Education and Role Models

    Quite a few people seem to think so. As a result, policies like this one get proposed. In reality, though, it does not seem to be as simple as just presenting role models. In a study in the United States, entrepreneurs were randomly assigned to some of the university students…

  6. Entrepreneurship Education as Career Education

    Various studies have pointed out that one major factor influencing whether someone chooses an entrepreneurial career is whether their parents are entrepreneurs. Having an entrepreneur as a parent is said to raise the probability that a child becomes an entrepreneur by 1.3 to 3.0 times (see the opening of the study below). …

  7. "Narrow" and "Broad" Entrepreneurship Education

    Entrepreneurship education comes in two kinds: "narrow" and "broad." Put simply, narrow entrepreneurship education is education for starting a business, while broad entrepreneurship education is education for cultivating entrepreneurial qualities and abilities, including those used outside of starting a business. The OECD's report on entrepreneurship educa…

  8. Entrepreneurship and 'Entrepreneurial Capacity': The Qualities and Competencies Entrepreneurship Education Should Cultivate

    Entrepreneurship is a word often translated as the entrepreneurial spirit or the spirit of enterprise. Because of the nuance of the word 'spirit,' some people seem to think that entrepreneurship education is 'education that fosters the spirit or mindset that entrepreneurs have.' As a result…

  9. The Shortage of Entrepreneurs: A Challenge for Japan's Startup Ecosystem in 2022

    As of 2022, Japan's startup ecosystem is said to have many areas for improvement. For example, the Startup Breakthrough Vision compiled by Keidanren in 2022 lists a number of challenges as of 2022. However, looking at the past five years, various…

  10. Business Entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Policy Entrepreneurs, Civic Entrepreneurs... Entrepreneurship Education in an Age That Calls for Many Kinds of "X Entrepreneurs"

    The number of people called "X entrepreneurs" ("X + entrepreneur" in English) is growing. For example, there are the following kinds of "X entrepreneurs." Some of these are hardly mature as concepts, but the fact that so many such terms have emerged…