SCOTLAND'S first centre for entrepreneurial studies was hailed
yesterday as a project that would boost the country's economy.
The centre will open in October, as part of the business faculty at
the Glasgow Caledonian University. The university's partners in the
venture, Scottish Enterprise and Dunbartonshire Enterprise, are
providing a grant of #200,000.
Students will be taught by established Scottish entrepreneurs as well
as the faculty's lecturers, and will be sent on placements with
fledgling companies.
Mr David Pearson, director of enterprise development at Dunbartonshire
Enterprise, said that part of the task was to change young people's
attitudes towards starting new businesses.
A recent survey in Dunbartonshire had shown that the young saw
entrepreneurs as greedy, selfish, mean and cocky. Few of those surveyed
aspired to be an entrepreneur, and few believed they had what it took to
be one.
The head of the centre will be Professor Richard Weaver, who said an
entrepreneurial culture could best be developed through the education
system.
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