Recently, entrepreneurship educators from around the world joined real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2008 Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE 24) at Babson College in Wellesley, MA.

The intensive four-day program explored the entrepreneurial process and core topics in the discipline.  Sixty-two entrepreneurship educators---40% international from 12 countries—attended. 

The goal of the program is to help all participants become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship.  Topics covered included:

• The Entrepreneurial Teacher: The Issues, The Challenges, The Stakes.
• Mapping the Entrepreneurship Territory
• Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset
• The Case Study Method along with several cases
• Idea Lab
• Trajectories in Entrepreneurship Education: The Path of Social Entrepreneurship
• Overview of Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME)
• Entrepreneurship Curriculum Design
• Alternative Pedagogies for Entrepreneurship Education
• The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action

Babson Professors Heidi Neck, Andrew Zacharakis, Les Charm, and Candida Brush were the faculty team for this program.  In addition, Carl Hedberg, case writer for Babson, gave a presentation on “Writing Mini Cases on the Fly”, and Steve Mariotti spoke to the group regarding his work with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).

Since 1984, Babson has trained more than 1,880 academics and entrepreneurs from 510 academic institutions, government organizations, and foundations in 55 countries, to teach entrepreneurship combining theory and practice to tens of thousands of students each year.