Entrepreneurship and small business education: a conceptual exploration

Entrepreneurship education is a very important issue in the development entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to explore principles based on entrepreneurship and small business research to build an entrepreneurship education program for potential entrepreneurs turn into practicing entrepreneurs. Among the issues reviewed are learning, the entrepreneurial process, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions. The paper concludes with a proposition of what to teach potential entrepreneurs and further research section suggests a curricular and technology review based on the findings of this paper.