Report on the survey of entrepreneurship education
The Teaching and Practice of Entrepreneurship within Canadian Higher Education Institutions (Dec. 2010)
CFBSD and its membership collaborated on this research initiative with Industry Canada.
The findings of the report illustrate that institutions are active in providing support for entrepreneurship on campus. In the 2007 – 2008 academic year, 98 percent of the surveyed institutions offered at least one undergraduate course in entrepreneurship. Furthermore, 80 percent of institutions offered entrepreneurship extracurricular activities, such as seminars/workshops, business plan/venture capital competitions and mentoring/coaching.
However, overall enrolment levels suggest that entrepreneurship is a specialized discipline. Amongst the institutions, 2.5 percent of students completed an entrepreneurship course, and 2,1 percent participated in entrepreneurship extracurricular activities. The report also identifies the uneven access to entrepreneurship education across faculties and the limited support for early-stage entrepreneurship on campus, two areas where more can be done to facilitate an entrepreneurial culture in Canada.