ABSTRACT
A serious dichotomy has existed in business education curricula regarding the importance and positioning of entrepreneurship courses in the USA. A brief history of the development of entrepreneurship serves to verify its pragmatic origins and provide some clues to its consideration by academicians as a trade school subject. During 1993 members of the New England business community, attending the Route 128 Venture Capital Club meetings, were informally asked to identify what they perceived to be shortfalls in the education of recent Business School graduates. The purpose of the 'capstone course’ was to provide the student with a business overview through integration of the material they were supposed to have learned from the junior ‘core’ curriculum. A ‘capstone’ entrepreneurial course, ‘Managing the Growing Business’, rounds out the entrepreneurship curriculum. Entrepreneurial research studies provide one anchor for designing the Entrepreneurial curriculum of the 21st century.
