entrepreneurial education - essential skills for life
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Leaving Cert Vocational Programme
National Seminar - March 21st 2015
Entrepreneurial education Essential skills for life
Note: My journey, many career changes, a fact of life in the modern era
that our students face into.
“Students feel they
have not learned
enough for the move
to adult life, where
they have to become
independent and
make financial and
life decisions.”
“Ireland must encourage entrepreneurship as a
norm rather than an exception.”
Note: In Ireland we face a cultural challenge, yes, we
have success stories but not enough of them.
“Where would we start, with a
degree we can get a job and the
employer provides the
framework…”
Final Year Undergrad
Note: And this cultural challenge needs a grassroots up approach, at the moment
entrepreneurship is not seen as a viable career choice and is perceived as a high
risk option by many students.
“Particular focus
on entrepreneurship
as two thirds of all
new jobs are created
by startup businesses.”
Note: However a vibrant, growing startup sector
is essential to the success of our economy.
“Entrepreneurship must
become part of our national
DNA.”
Minister Bruton
Note: Prompting the following observation by Minister Bruton
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Research
● More education required at all
levels on entrepreneurship.
● Develop an entrepreneurship
agenda in the education system
and have a stronger focus on the
importance of entrepreneurship as
a career option.
Note: Finding in respect of Ireland
Note: Does the message appear
to be dis-empowering? That if you
can’t sing as well as Bono don’t
sing, if you can’t play soccer as
well as Ronaldo, don’t play
soccer?
1. Vision
2. Ability to create/increase value
3. Mastery Knowledge
4. Focus
5. Communication Skills
6. Networking Skills/Allies
7. Passion
8. Resiliance
9. Confidence
10. Fortitude
Note: And yet the characteristics that successful entrepreneurs exhibit are
those that are essential to many aspects of life.
Entrepreneurship education is about how
to develop a general set of competences
applicable in all walks of life, not simply
about learning how to run a business.
EU Entrepreneurship Education a guide
for educators 2013
Note: A point underpinned by the EU
Entrepreneurship is a ‘learning by
doing’ activity, not an academic
activity.
Note: Particularly in light of the fact that..
Note: So if we are
going to achieve
this ambition of
Ireland becoming a
global startup hub
by 2020 where do
we start?
Note: The journey of Irish rugby from the amateur era to the professional era
offers many useful lessons in creating positive culture change.
Note: Key success factors included a significant increase in the national
participation rate and early talent spotting, an increase in the level of ambition
and the positive impact of international talent and perspectives.
Grassroots/Culture
Note: What this
participation pipeline
might look like for
entrepreneurship and
high impact startups by
2020 with the key role
of education at the
grassroots level helping
increase the
participation rate and
aiding early talent
spotting.
Innovation &
Entrepreneurial Skills
Passport –
culture change at scale
Note: How Startup Ireland will
help develop a more
entrepreneurial culture, we are
developing a …..
• Opportunity recognition/Calculated
Risk Taking - Lean Canvas
• Plan and direct teams towards the
achievement of goals - Trello
• Design Led Thinking
• How to be creative - Mindmaps
• Networking - Linkedin
Core entrepreneurial skills
Note: The Innovation & Entrepreneurial Skills Passport will be
launched at our flagship event in October.
“Young minds are not
vessels to be filled,
but fires to be ignited”
Alexander PopeNote: You as educators on the Leaving Cert Vocational Programme are
in a fantastic position to help shape an entrepreneurial mindset in our
next generation.
Note: Helping our next generation become less risk averse in respect of
enterprise and helping change the focus of our culture from seeing property as
the best investment towards seeing themselves and their enterprises as
equally valid investments.
"Lessons learned?
Ireland’s property
love affair continues."
Irish Central.com
Small teams of individuals can
do what only governments and
large corporations could have
ever done in the past.
Note: Because being entrepreneurial is
very much about self empowerment in an
era when….