Cahier 2000-05 – Entrepreneurial Careers of the Future, Self-Space and Spin-Offs
Cahier 2000-05 - Entrepreneurial Careers of the Future, Self-Space and Spin-Offs
Auteur : Louis Jacques Filion
This paper was presented at the Spirit of Entrepreneurship 2000 Conference held in Halifax, May 2-6, 2000.
It repeats certain elements published in working papers 99-01 «Espace de soi et vision», and 99-02 «Self-space and Vision».
Résumé : Cette conférence s’adresse principalement à des éducateurs réunis dans un colloque pour réfléchir à des façons d’améliorer l’éducation entrepreneuriale des jeunes du niveau secondaire. Elle comprend trois parties : 1. Les tendances de l’environnement qui peuvent expliquer pourquoi le Canada est le pays qui compte la plus forte proportion de travailleurs autonomes parmi les pays développés et pourquoi nous avons de plus en plus de micro entreprises; 2. Un survol de ce que pourront être les carrières entrepreneuriales de l’avenir; 3.Le concept d’espace de soi est suggéré comme approche pour mieux préparer à jouer un rôle entrepreneurial. Une application de ce concept à l’essaimage est illustrée.
Summary : This paper was written mainly for a group of educators who had come together at a conference to think about possible ways of improving entrepreneurial education for high school level students. It is divided into three sections. The first examines the environmental trends that may explain why Canada is one of the developed countries with the largest proportion of self-employed, and why the number of micro-enterprises is growing steadily. The second contains an overview of some possible entrepreneurial careers of the future, and the third proposes the concept of self-space as an approach that could be used to help young people prepare to play a more entrepreneurial role in the future. The concept is illustrated through a spin-off application.
