Nurturing Entrepreneurship through Education

Brief background

This study is an effort to collate, assess, refine, and disseminate ideas in entrepreneurship education. It will attempt to create a set of recommendations to primarily help design educational programmes that will engender greater successful participation of youth in entrepreneurship. The study will also explore the opportunities for entrepreneurs in the “education of the entrepreneur” space. Finally, the study will help define a framework for WCED to engage or partner with the players in the current scenario.

Key objectives

1.     Consolidate the existing entrepreneurial education landscape in India and assess their effectiveness based on a defined framework
2.     Consolidate nature, range and best practices in entrepreneurship education around the world
3.     Analyse the gaps, issues, challenges and opportunities in the entrepreneurship education space in India
4.     Explore the opportunities for entrepreneurship in “entrepreneurship education” space
5.     Provide recommendations to the stakeholders (public, private, academia and civil society)
6.     Design pilot initiative(s) and thereby propose approaches that address gaps and identify ways to scale them   

Current stage

Baseline stage: Consolidating the existing landscape in India and abroad, and designing an evaluation framework