Entrepreneurship is one of the most popular areas in business schools across the nation.
According to the Kauffman Foundation opens a new website, the number of entrepreneurship education programs has increased fivefold and the number of course offerings has increased 20-fold in the United States since the 1970s. To help support the evolution of business education, professors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Collat School of Business recently published a framework of entrepreneurial phenomena designed for program development and educational activity.
"Despite this growth, the field has not yet established a distinct paradigm alongside other fields in the traditional domain of business studies as accounting, economics and finance have," said Patrick J. Murphy, Ph.D., Goodrich Endowed Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UAB. "As a result, many students and employers regard a rigorous and transformational education in entrepreneurial competence as very attractive. However, the emergence of entrepreneurship major programs built intentionally to deliver those kinds of learning outcomes has not progressed as quickly as those stakeholders prefer."
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