Tina Seelig, executive director, Stanford's Technology Ventures programme, reasons that subjects like entrepreneurship and innovation can be taught. In a chat with Kalpana pathak, she explains why. Excerpts:
You have been running the entrepreneurship programme for 13 years. What made you tie up with NEN?
We are very much interested in sharing what we do. We are interested in the global community. We have been holding conferences across world and have raised the entrepreneurship education bar for everyone.
We want to learn about the entrepreneurial environment in Asia and this is how we have formed a partnership with the national entrepreneurship network.
Entrepreneurship education is a fairly new phenomenon. What kind of a response you get when you talk about this subject?
When we started the entrepreneurship venture programme at Stanford 13 years ago, people asked us if we should be teaching leadership. Today we are asked how we go about teaching leadership and creating leaders.
People are enthusiastic about entrepreneurship education. Especially the students who come to us with great passion but do not have the skills and tools to be entrepreneurs. At present, we have 1,500 students at our centre studying entrepreneurship.
What do you emphasise in entrepreneurship education?
We teach students to be entrepreneurial
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