Some points here -
I dislike the word Entrepreneur, but when dealing with Government and other large organisations it's the primary phrase used - especially when funding is involved. They all want to spend money to reach and connect with "Entrepreneurs of ________ *"
Government officials may mean well, but they seldom, if ever, realise what they are doing. They are always working to a set of rules and pathways laid down by a committee. For that reason, they need you to jump through hoops and tick boxes.
They SAY that they want to help you. But by getting you to negotiate all their hoops and tick all the boxes, YOU are helping THEM.
For that reason, when approached by these people and asked if they can help me, I tell them to help me by doing specific things that would genuinely help. These are always things about which they are clueless. As Reagan said, "The most dangerous words in the English language are
I am from the government and I am here to help you!"
My golden rule is to keep them at a healthy distance- about the length of a long bargepole that has been thoroughly disinfected!
As for studying entrepreneurship, back to the OP, I was interviewed by some students studying "Entrepreneurship" and they asked can being an entrepeneur be taught and I simply said "Nope", after the awkward silence I did then expand on it and pretty much say something alone the lines of
@Chris Ashdown 's comment above.
Studying how entrepreneurs work is much the same as studying the gestation process and birth of the African elephant. You will hopefully know a great deal about the gestation process and birth of the African elephant, but it cannot actually turn you into a pregnant female African elephant.
A lot of those are actually counter productive - want to make yourself hard to employ as an engineer - do a degree in Automotive or Aerospace Engineering and don't get a 2i or 1st., without the top grades you won't get a job in those fields but every "normal" engineering role you apply for will look at you and go "oh they could do this job but will always be on the lookout for an automotive/aerospace job as that is their passion so let's go with candidate no2" same with programmers doing "Games Development" then trying to get a normal grad development role.
This is a very, very, very important point! I get many CVs from hopefuls that have done some degree such as Music Technology or Cinematography or some such VERY specific field that implies that they know little or nothing beyond that small field that offers very few chances for gainful employment.
Were I to be hiring a young hopeful (I ain't!) I would look for someone who can do it all. The relatively new career field created in Germany in 1996 of 'Mediengestalter' (media production assistant) and is subdivided into '
Picture and Sound' for film and TV and
'Digital and Print' for web and print media. This is not a study course, but an apprenticeship requiring good A-Levels. It teaches them a bit of everything from IT networking to BluRay authoring, from Dolby Atmos to three-point lighting - and so on. Needless to say, because these youngsters have actually learned in working TV and film studios, they are much sought after!
So a practical hands-on education at the rockface is always preferable to trying to become a pregnant female African elephant.
Studying entrepreneurship sounds to me mighty like someone studying how to become a pregnant female African elephant.
