Snap-shot of “Entrepreneurship education in Norway”

Jarle TømmerbakkeCEO – Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise Norway

The 2009 Plan of Action on Entrepreneurship in Education:To build on what’s been done so farMore focus on higher educationNeed to start early and to implement EE on a broad basisIncrease quality and quantity

The ”third focus”

Entrepreneurship can be a tool and a way of working to stimulate learning in different subjects and in basic skills.

Innovation and creativity

Enterprise in education

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The Graduate Programme ….gives post-secondary students the opportunity to experience the exhilaration of running their own company, giving them an insight into how their talents could be used to set up in business for themselves. Graduate Programme students gain real experience of the world of business: creating and researching a business plan, taking responsibility and being accountable to their shareholders for the running of the company.

The KAN program – leadership trainingKAN stands for women - aspirations and networks and the objective is to increase female students' knowledge and expertise in business creation and wealth creation, and encourage them to take leadership roles and board positions. Target group is female students in the Graduate Programme, or who have previously completed the Graduate Programme. Method: 2-3 days with a focus on speeches, personal development, group work and "learning by doing".

Innovation Camp is a training session in creativity and innovation. Groups of students have to present innovative viable solutions to a real challenge put to them by either a business or institution within a limited period. The students are working in groups, often composed of students from different programs. Finally, each group presents their solution for a jury and a winner is selected. In October 2009, we’ll organize the first national innovation camp

Number of students in Norway•1-9 grade•10 – 13•Higher education

Penetration age group 15 – 19 years = rate 20%App 2 500 companies moving into higher

education...

AllYears 02/04

Years 04/06

No desire/plans to establish my own business 65 % 63 % 66 %

Will / want to establish my own business within 3 years 17 % 12 % 19 %

Have established my own company / finalizing

establishing my own business17,4 % 25 % 16 %

Study from October 2006 done by Eastern Norway Research Institute. “What happened later” - Students doing the Graduate Program in Universities

Conclusion:

The level of entrepreneurial activity among students who have participated in the Graduate Program is more than double of what is the activity in the average population…

Entrepreneurs are made, not born

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