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entrepreneur
(redirected from Entrepreneurial education)

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Entrepreneur
A person starting a new company who takes on the risks associated with starting the enterprise, which may require venture capital to cover start-up costs.

entrepreneur
A risk-taker who has the skills and initiative to establish a business.

entrepreneur
The possessor or owner of a for-profit organization. The term is usually applied to small business owners, who bear the majority of the risk and reap the most benefit from a company. It can also relate to (individual) majority shareholders who are involved in the operation of his/her business. Entrepreneurs are generally accepted as integral to the success of a capitalist system.


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Moreover, entrepreneurial education and experiences must be available for undergraduates, so they can discover how graduate study brings their visions to fruition.
A good example of this proactive attitude is the work being done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, arguably the best-known entrepreneurial education foundation in the country.
What they won't tell you is that they are so afraid of losing state funding that they will do everything they can to forestall or outright abort an entrepreneurial education for those same children.
 
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