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Being “in-between”: What we can learn from Multiple Identity Management in Student Entrepreneuring
Suna Sørensen ( Universitet, Denmark) Suna Sørensen, University, Department of Business Studies, Fibigerstræde 2, DK-9220, East, Phone: +45 96358227, Fax: +45 98156950, Email: ******@
William B. Gartner (Clemson University, USA)
Abstract
This paper is a policy version of a conference paper presented at RENT XX (November 23-24, 2006). It targets the identity tensions university level students experience in the process of ing entrepreneurs, and how they manage these tensions. Specially, the paper asks the question: What can universities learn from the way the two identities “student” and “entrepreneur” are managed in regard to the facilitation and intensification of entrepreneurial ing in a student setting. We suggest that this paper offer some new perspectives on the phenomenon of student entrepreneuring, which give rise to policy mendations on three different levels, being a student, educational and institutional level.
European Paper petition 2006
December 2006
Introduction
University students are often seen as essential carriers of entrepreneurial potential; they hold skills bine and transform advanced knowledge. The Danish Ministry of Education (2002) concludes: “There are many skilled young people, but we do not educate enough, those who e entrepreneurs. Denmark has an untapped potential in this area and it is this potential, which the government wants to do something about. Young people have tools petences, which make them capable of petent and growth creating entrepreneurs”(p. 13). The student entrepreneurship potential underlines universities’ role as platform for entrepreneurialism.
But how do universities enact a curriculum, which intensifies and facilitates these students’ entrepreneurial ing? Until recently, universities have prepared students’ to e doctors, engineers, lawy