Entrepreneurship is now more in demand than ever before. However, entrepreneurship in digital era is not limited to holding online meetings, paperless office or communication on social media. Rather, it must be seen as a holistic approach to thinking that encompasses all processes of an organisation, including communication and service provision. If we succeed in "thinking digitally", such as integrating digital process support at all levels, we can experience long-term success and keep uprising competitors at bay. Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognised as a means to stimulate change and growth within and across national economies. This in turn elevates the expectations of teachers and students of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship students are in turn expected to engage in elevated risk for the benefit of the broader community and create businesses and social organisations that generate prosperity and wealth. In current times we also face the looming crisis of human-induced climate change. The question this scenario raises for readers and users of this book.
Many famous entrepreneurs never finished school. But the fact is that education and entrepreneurship are highly correlated - the more education you have, the more likely you are to engage successfully in entrepreneurship. Even if you have just one class in entrepreneurship, you are more likely to become an entrepreneur, more likely be self-employed, have potentially higher annual incomes, and set up your own business after graduation, compared to your peers. The next confronting question for any entrepreneurship academic is, can we actually teach entrepreneurship? Again, yes and no. Yes, students can learn it and it takes two forms. The first is education that helps learners to discover whether there is a spark within themselves. The second is that teaching facilitates learning the skills, both in mind and in practice that characterises your own personal form of entrepreneurship. What teachers can and should do is create a world where students can learn to be an entrepreneur by becoming more confident in their abilities and learning skills needed to achieve success in a social or business venture. But the answer is also no, when you think of most classrooms. It's not about PowerPoint presentations and lectures; instead, it's about having experiences and creating opportunities for entrepreneurship. In those precious minutes together with learners, an entrepreneurship educator needs to provide content that is both enabling and experiential, where you can sit at the elbow of real entrepreneurs, be challenged by the real problems of an entrepreneur, be given access to tools and techniques to work through those problems and ultimately, where you can learn the craft of entrepreneurship.
It is always someone able to juggle work, family, and civic responsibilities while meeting payroll. To provide an understanding of this person and the process of creating and growing a new venture on an international basis, this Entrepreneurship in a Digital Era is divided into fourteen major chapters as follows: Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship Foundation; Chapter 2: An Entrepreneur; Chapter 3: Entrepreneurship as A Social and Economic Process, Chapter 4: The Entrepreneurial Process; Chapter 5: The Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurs; Chapter 6: Discovering Business Opportunities; Chapter 7: Feasibility Analysis and Financing Of A Business; Chapter 8: Understanding entrepreneurship; Chapter 9: Business Environment; Chapter 10: State of Entrepreneurship in Nigeria; Chapter 11: Financing the Entrepreneurial Business; Chapter 12: Digital Entrepreneurship; Chapter 13: Forms Of Business Organisations and Managerial Skills, Chapter 14: Unleashing the Creativity of Entrepreneurs with Digital Technologies; Chapter 15: The Entrepreneur Going Global