ABSTRACT

This chapter highlights the lack of theoretical rigour in the area of entrepreneurship and discusses the extent to which entrepreneurship can be taught. It focuses on the entrepreneurship education and training programmes, considering the ways in which such programmes have been categorised, as well as their objectives, structure and content. Despite the fact that the debate surrounding whether or not entrepreneurship can be taught continues, there has been much interest in entrepreneurship education over the last couple of decades. Jack S. L. and Anderson's A. R. have suggested that teaching entrepreneurship is a bit of an enigma since the actual entrepreneurial process involves both art and science. Education for enterprise, deals more with the preparation of aspiring entrepreneurs for a career in self-employment with the specific objective of encouraging participants to set-up and run their own business. In exploring the relationship between education and entrepreneurship, Gibb has contrasted the classroom learning situation with the real world learning environment of the entrepreneur.