Abstract:
Entrepreneurship education enhances the entrepreneurial potential of
students, leading them to take up an entrepreneurial career. But, in
India, a vast majority of youths with latent entrepreneurial potential
are passing out of colleges without the needed basic entrepreneurial
skills. The inconsistency towards entrepreneurship development policy
is hurting the economy as a whole. The study analyses entrepreneurial
potential of students and entrepreneurship education in the higher
education system. It also examines whether there exists an alignment
among them using the data triangulation method. The findings signify
that entrepreneurial potential of students is on the upper side, and
entrepreneurship education in higher education system is below average.
The outcome of this study highlights the increasing need to focus on
entrepreneurship education in higher education.
