Journal of Management Development: Journal of Management Development, Volume 25, Issue 1 (PDF)

This e-book addresses the subject of entrepreneurship teaching, research and service across academic disciplines. It explores and appreciates ways to infuse cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial ideas into disciplinary teaching, research and service. Colleges and universities should no longer think of equipping graduates with just the basic skills of their specific labour market share, so that firms will utilise their basic skills to transform them into productive workers in the large industrial networks. They should rather aspire to prepare students as entrepreneurs in their respective fields. In other words, they should evolve from churning out apprentices to producing ready entrepreneurs. For example, architecture or pharmacy students should be prepared to the extent that on graduation, they are ready to start their own businesses. Those who graduated in literature, sociology, anthropology and other similar areas should no longer see themselves as perpetually assigned to a limited focus such as teaching and instruction. The ability to emerge as entrepreneurs in their respective disciplines lies with the graduates’ knowledge of entrepreneurship both within their immediate areas and beyond their specific fields. In this regard, cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship is considered an essential component of the present-day educational curriculum. The challenge for educators is therefore to find a new method of integrating the theories and practices of this entrepreneurial know-how into their curriculum.