Constructing Entrepreneurial Identity in Entrepreneurship Education
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Saba Fazal Firdousi , Prof Dr Cai Li , Majid Murad , Hasnain Javed ,
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Abstract
While expanding interest for pioneering ability has prompted steady development in business enterprise instruction, few projects give vigorous results, for example, genuine new pursuits or innovative conduct in genuine settings. This is because of a hole in our hypothetical comprehension of the stuff to end up enterprising. Research recommends that past procuring information and the ability to act innovatively, enterprising adapting likewise includes the improvement of a pioneering character. However most records of business enterprise instruction do exclude this idea. We investigate enterprising personality and how it is built inside a business instruction.
Interfacing innovative learning hypothesis with writing on character, we built up a lot of classes tending to the development of a pioneering personality. For a situation learn at a European specialized college, we utilized these classes to test and dissect account information created as understudies made new pursuits. The outcomes bolster our supposition that, with regards to another endeavor creation program, understudies experience moves that lead to the improvement of innovative personality. In light of these discoveries, we contend that on the off chance that the instructive goal is learning for the act of business, at that point personality development should be viewed as significant an objective as the improvement of information and ability
Keywords
entrepreneurial identity, entrepreneurial education, innovation, creativity
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