Entrepreneurship education. Insights on current challenges - Editorial

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Carlos Francisco de Sousa
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/45682
• topic: Entrepreneurship education; theoretical issues; practical realm; fields of appliance; complex approach

Yet it is not for denying the will and the capacity of each human being to assert him/herself by an entrepreneurial attitude. Nor shall we deny those who have initiative and creativity to open new ways of enriching our societies with their value. The case is that for ensuring competitive, innovative, sustainable, inclusive and just societies, as the European Commission so well puts it, takes us to the current dilemma of indefinite growth without really having indefinite resources; an issue that takes us to face the environmental problems as well as the need for equity of growth. So being, we now must address at the same time the problem of entrepreneurship and sustainability, not just as problems but as scopes of education, i. e., entrepreneurship and sustainability education. An antinomy not commonly considered but often disregard or even hidden. Nevertheless, we also have to tackle the growing demand, even if we should control it, we have to tackle, human ambition even if it should be restraint. Thus we must pursue a line of endeavor or entrepreneurship balanced with a line of respect for difference and diversity as core issues of sustainability.