Entrepreneurship educators from around the world will join real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2009 Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE 25)  May 25-29, 2009 at Babson College in Wellesley, MA.

Follow live updates from the symposium on Twitter from @enterpriseeduc, posted  from Maria Jemicz of Leeds Met University.

The intensive five-day program explores the entrepreneurial process and core topics in the discipline.  Sixty-four entrepreneurship educators from  12 countries - Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Guatemala, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the USA - will attend.
 
The goal of the program is to help all participants become more effective, innovative teachers of entrepreneurship.  Topics this year include:

-The Entrepreneurial Teacher: The Issues, The Challenges, The Stakes

-Mapping the Entrepreneurship Territory

-Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset

-The Timmons Model of Entrepreneurship in Action

-The Case Study Method along with several cases

-New Venture Creation as a Rite of Passage:  The First Year Start-Up

-Experiencing the Venture Capital Process

-Understanding Entrepreneurial Finance:  Paint Pen Case

-Managing the Growing Venture: Nancy’s Coffee Case

-Social Entrepreneurship : Building Businesses for a Better World

-Preparing the Rocket Pitch

-Assuming the Identity of an Entrepreneur: Web 2.0 in Entrepreneurship Education

-What’s Next in Entrepreneurship Education? The Rocket Pitch Event

Trish Costello, Director, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship and Babson Professors Heidi Neck, President Leonard Schlesinger, Andrew Zacharakis, Erik Noyes, Les Charm, Candida Brush, Ernie Parizeau and Patti Greene are the faculty team for this program.
 
Since 1984, Babson has trained over 2100 academics and entrepreneurs from over 550 academic institutions, government organizations, and foundations in 57 countries, to teach entrepreneurship combining theory and practice to tens of thousands of students each year.