More entrepreneurship at universities
Süddeutsche Zeitung reports on the need for more entrepreneurship at German universities
Süddeutsche Zeitung
“If 80 percent of all new jobs were created by young smaller companies, universities would not be able to ignore this in their academic curriculum, said Landfried on Friday at his organization’s annual meeting in Wiesbaden. To get them to “teach students entrepreneurship and creativity” Landfried suggests introducing a “holistic university education.”
At a panel discussion beforehand on the topic of “Studies and career”, Peter Rasenberger, a young computer entrepreneur from Düsseldorf, pointed out that almost all faculties at US universities have special chairs for entrepreneurship. German institutes of higher education have considerable deficits in this area. …”