Can entrepreneurship be taught in classrooms?

During my experience at University, I realized learning doesn’t stop after a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree. Learning is a lifelong activity!

University gives us theoretical knowledge and some inspiration in order to explore new paths.

In fact, my potential is not limited to how well I can memorize a course. But I could also grow my creativity, and build up new skills.

After graduation our careers aren’t going to be an easy ride, our careers are going to be a marathon of trying to find solutions to new problems that arise every single day.

That’s why we want an entrepreneurial mindset.

What Entrepreneurial mindset is?

It is the state of mind, where difficulties become opportunities in order for new solutions to be found. Where you start finding these solutions instead of trying to find excuses on why not to do something about it.

And it can be fairly represented by Creativity, Critical thinking, Problem-solving and Communications.

I’m not saying that everybody needs to be an entrepreneur. What I’m saying is all young people, like me and you, regardless if we start a business or if we work for an employer we need a powerful entrepreneurial mindset in order to support us.

Can an entrepreneurial mindset be taught or it is something that every entrepreneur can learn only by practicing it?

Some entrepreneurial skills can be taught and others cannot.

The mentors need to be motivated in order to explain critical parts of entrepreneurship to students and students need to be motivated in order to understand the value of entrepreneurship skills and learn them.

Τo nurtures these entrepreneurial skills you need to practice them in hands-on projects.

Here is the problem.

Most of the graduates will come out and they won’t have practical experience. University doesn’t help the students to grow these skills. More theory, less practice. Because even if we have subjects that are corresponding to the reality of our future job, often professors are choosing to start with a theoretical stage of knowledge that existed 50 or 100 years ago. In that case, maybe even the total years of university aren’t enough to reach a practical way.

But let’s just not be so judgmental about higher education.

In fact, University is the Alpha

It reveals to you the way to learn. Since if you don’t know how to learn, how is it possible to learn and put this fresh knowledge into practice effectively? Even if you have access to the most powerful tools. The best mentors and practical guides turn to be useless in that case.

But Alpha is never enough in order to reach the top, Omega

Of course, it is all about the Entrepreneurial mindset. Without forgetting also to allow yourself to dream. Dream big. Ambitious goals that others think as unreachable. And then work hard to achieve them. Try and get involved in procedures that are experiential, inspiring and through these, you will grow, get developed and improved.

And what is better than to live this experience in real-time with Univation?

An organization whose mission is to bridge the gap between University and Innovation. With the ultimate goals of inspiring students by organizing entrepreneurial Tech and the City events, developing the volunteers to achieve this vision and empowering students not only to make their dreams come alive by building their own startup in their college campus but also to learn how to work together in a startup environment.

Maybe this is the time to let entrepreneurship drive you to its world.

Co-writer: Vasiliki Georgakoudi