Entrepreneurship and enterprise skills: A missing element of planning education?
This article adds to the skills debate in planning. In particular, it seeks to address whether and perhaps more importantly what entrepreneurship skills and attitudes could contribute to the profile of the planning profession and whether it would be valuable to include such skills in the planning curriculum. First, the article reviews government and educational policies as well as the meaning of entrepreneurship and the skills associated with it. Then, skills and competencies are related to planning tasks and particularities of the planning profession. The article concludes with potential advantages and disadvantages of incorporating subject specific entrepreneurial skills in planning curricula and proposes some approaches for teaching enterprise and entrepreneurship skills.
Planning Practice and Research, Volume 22 (4), 635-648, (2007)