Entrepreneurship Education for All

(Inc) — In the late 1970s, about 500 colleges and universities offered courses in entrepreneurship. By 2005, more than 2,000 did so. Yet there has been no corresponding surge in start-up activity. “The things we’ve been trying on campuses have had a marginal impact, if that,” says Dane Stangler, a researcher at the Kauffman Foundation. To be sure, there are individual programs that have a proven record of generating real companies. What they generally have in common is a belief that entrepreneurship training is for everyone — not just M.B.A.’s, but engineers and art students, too.