Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2016, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 16-21.doi: DOI:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2016.02.002

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Ecological Development of Entrepreneurship Education:Perspective of GALCHS

XU Xiao-Zhou,WANG Xu-Yan   

  1. College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China
  • Online:2016-05-20 Published:2016-07-05
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Abstract: How to build an ecosystem of entrepreneurship education has become a major concern all around the world, either at the theoretical or practical level. Current researches focus on the university-based entrepreneurship ecosystem (U-BEE), and it’s believed that universities are the hub of the ecosystem, which provides the infrastructure, capital and training to students’ entrepreneurial activities through dealing with the stakeholders like the governments, enterprises and markets. Entrepreneurship education ecosystem is a functional body. The school system is the core of the ecosystem, while the government, families, enterprises, and other social institutions should join the ecosystem as an input environment. The school system educates innovational and enterprising talents for society in return. To construct an entrepreneurship education ecosystem, it’s essential to analyze the elements of the system and its operational mechanism and make a top-level design as a whole including the concept, positioning and objectives of ecological entrepreneurship education. In accordance with the mission and internal requirements of entrepreneurship education, Chinese ecosystem of entrepreneurship education should establish the idea of GALCHS, i.e. global, all, lifelong, complementary, holistic and sustainable. Global entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship for all and lifelong entrepreneurship are the three main external powers of the current social development. Complementary, holistic and sustainable are the other three internal stresses in the ecosystem. Entrepreneurship education develops like whirling through the interaction of external and internal power. However, the current ecosystem of entrepreneurship education is still at the stage of infancy, it even has not stepped into the puberty time, let alone a steady state. At present, entrepreneurship education develops vigorously in universities, but it is not popular in the elementary and secondary schools. The Chinese governments, either at the central or local level, have issued both general policies and specific regulations concerning entrepreneurship education, in order to create a favorable environment for students and the development of entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. But it seems that the entrepreneurship education policies lack a holistic plan for the development of society and economy. It would be difficult to support the effective operation of the entrepreneurship education without sufficient internal and external resources, like practical training platforms, business incubators, venture capitals, curriculum, teachers, etc. According to GALCHS, to promote the budding, growth, and steady state of ecosystem of entrepreneurship education , colleges and universities in China should solve the problem of role missing in the ecosystem of entrepreneurship education, and more efficient polices need to be produced and the basis of entrepreneurship should be reinforced in the ecosystem of entrepreneurship education.