POV 2: Yes, Entrepreneurship Can Be Taught

A business starts with an idea and then moves to streamline to a plan, backed by research, findings, and leveraging processes and tools.

An entrepreneur with education will definitely have an edge knowing such methodologies and scouting through the theoretical model that fits best for their use.

So yes, entrepreneurship can be taught because:

1. Build awareness of tools, processes, and methodologies that can be used to diminish the probability of failure or repeat.
2. Build a network of soon-to-be entrepreneurs, who will share the same set of struggles and challenges when they enter the real world.
3. Generate credibility for yourself which makes it easier to get a foot in the startup world.
4. Build a learning orientation and perseverance to keep at it now that you have entrepreneurship as a valid career choice.

Being an entrepreneur is both a fad and a need of the hour in today’s time. On one hand, where the pandemic has rebooted a lot of industries, resetting the level playing field, entrepreneurs such as Nikhil Kamath, Elon Musk, and Larry Page, on the other hand, have become role models for many. That said, it’s often debated, can entrepreneurship be taught?

There are people who think entrepreneurship can be taught in a classroom while others believe entrepreneurship is learned by doing since countless entrepreneurs have done it after having either dropped out of college or not undergoing any business education. 

Well, when it comes to getting the next generation of leaders prepped for the uncertain world, it’s true that the traditional means of education will not suffice. To adapt to the rapidly evolving world, entrepreneurs need to be visionaries who can act nimbly in face of challenges, reimagine the art of every possible and adapt to the unknowable future.

Before we dive deeper into each side of this debate, let us understand ‘entrepreneurship’.