 | Russian Association for Entrepreneurship Education is Launched |
Entrepreneurs need to be trained in a totally different way from managers or specialists. During training, they need an even more practical bias and demonstrable ideas. They need actual experience from practical entrepreneurs acting as trainers to their peers. Life suggests this problem can only be solved by one method, ongoing interchange between all those involved in the entrepreneurial process – business educators, consultants, and businessmen themselves. Quite predictably, countries with the highest level of entrepreneurship development are also countries with the biggest number of non-government organizations and clubs hosting business experience interchange.
The Russian Association for Entrepreneurship Education is designed to make the best western and Russian practices available to all who are eager to absorb it. It was initiated by The U.S. Russia Center for Entrepreneurship which organized a working group meeting attended by about 20 leading Russian universities, business schools and entrepreneurs involved in training.
The template for the Association was the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), which has been successfully operating in the USA for 52 years.
Geralyn Franklin, President of USASBE, and Dean of the College of Business at the University of South Florida, came to Moscow specifically to tell her colleagues about the structure of USASBE, an organization that unites about 800 people disseminating knowledge about SMEs and entrepreneurship. They include scholars, authors of training courses in psychology and dramatic art, as well as professors of classical business subjects. USASBE members are entitled to free journals and information bulletins in the field of entrepreneurship; they improve their skills at seminars and workshops; and they meet annually for a major conference in various cities of the US. USASBE is not confined to US practices, and is part of the International Council for Small Business.
Following the above model, the Russian Association for Entrepreneurship Education will be able to identify the best Russian programs and use them as a basis on which to establish higher levels of training. Association members will regularly take part in workshops and conferences abroad thus creating a bridge via which the most up-to-date entrepreneurial knowledge will enter this country.
Ludmila Murgulets, Vice President of the Stockholm School of Economics in St. Petersburg, has been elected President of the Russian Association for Entrepreneurship Education.
For details about the new business association, call the U.S.-Russia Center for Entrepreneurship at (495) 252-7927 or write to Ms. Alla Danilova of the center at: adanilova@cfe.ru.
Author: By Alexei Makurin
Source:
“My Business” magazine
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