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Entrepreneurial projects in Finland

Entrepreneurial projects in Finland. Dr. Auli Ojala Theoretical background of The Star Teacher in Entrepreneurship Education in Every Municipality in Finland -project. This presentation is presented in dissemination conference (Leonardo da Vinci) in Roros October 3 and 4 2007 in Norway.

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Entrepreneurial projects in Finland

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  1. Entrepreneurial projects in Finland Dr. Auli Ojala Theoretical background of The Star Teacher in Entrepreneurship Education in Every Municipality in Finland -project. This presentation is presented in dissemination conference (Leonardo da Vinci) in Roros October 3 and 4 2007 in Norway. @AO

  2. Theoretical background • The concept of entrepreneurship includes both external and internal entrepreneurship. As a concept, it is a process that changes according to the changes in the surrounding society.

  3. Concept of entrepreneurship education • Entrepreneurship education refers to education and teaching given both in school and in the surrounding society. Entrepreneurship education as a concept means growing into entrepreneurship witch in turn here means both external and internal entrepreneurship.

  4. Didactics of entrepreneurship education • We must examine the didactics of entrepreneurship education as a part of the national economy, in the framework of each municipality’s industrial structure, as the interaction between school and interest groups is important in entrepreneurship education.

  5. Entrepreneurship education, replace the classroom with a real business environment and the theoretical teaching with real learning experiences!

  6. Presentation of the municipalities that took part in the entrepreneurship education projects. • Bibliography: Ojala, A – Pihkala,J. First step towards entrepreneurship in school (1994). National Board of Education. Helsinki.

  7. Tammisaari case

  8. Population structure and types of schools • The number of inhabitants in Tammisaari is 14 252, of whom 6501 are employees, 382 unemployed, 2367 aged 15 and under, 969 students and 3700 retired. • In Tammisaari there are 7 lower stages and I upper stage of comprehensive schools, I special Comprehensive school, I private comprehensive school , 1 upper secondary school, 1 music institute, 1 adult education institute , 1 agricultural institute, 1 arts and grafts institute, I commercial institute, and I technical institute.

  9. Background for the entrepreneurship education project in Tammisaari • network model • Seminarieskolan • Höjdens skolan • Tenala-bromarf högstadieskolan • Ekenäs Högstadieskolan • Ekenäs Forstinstitut • Ekenäs hantverks- och konstindustriskolan

  10. Results of the project’aims • The learners’ internal entrepreneuship • learning-by-doing excursions to business • simulation models • entrepreneurs’ presentation • investigative learning • special theme days • pupil students union activities

  11. THE LEARNES’ KNOWLEDGE OF BUSINESS activities • practice in setting up business • working in the patron business • work experience • the learnes takes responsibility for his or her task • cooperation between pupils and students networking institutes

  12. cooperation between schools and interest group • business in the municipality • the ombudsman of business development services, enterprise agencies,different schools and institutes, universities,businesses in other municipalities • business organisations and associations in the area

  13. school networks • cooperation between different schools and institutes is enhanced • commom teachers can be used • students and pupils have even more choices witin their optional courses • fewer courses overlap • cost are reduced every level • special fields of different schools in the network can be utilised

  14. AT THE END • IT IS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE WHICH TEACHING METHODS SUPPORT INTERNAL AND WHICH EXTERNAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AS TEACHING AND LEARNING ENTREPRENEUSHIP IS A PROCESS THAT VARIES ACCORDING TO THE CHANGES IN THE SURROUNDING SOCIETY.

  15. OPEKO • NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONIN FINLAND

  16. THE STAR TEACHER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN EVERY MUNICIPALITY 4 NETWORK • Företagarna i Finland • Economic Information Burea • National Board of Education • Bibliography: The Star Teacher of Entrepreneurship Education in Eevery Municipality 1 – 4. 1999, 2001, 2004, 2008.Edited by Ojala. OPEKO. TAMPERE. HEINOLA.

  17. The aims of the project • The methods • Networking • Conclusions

  18. DIFFERENT MODLES OF TEACHING METHODS – IDEAS FOR TEACHING ENTEPRENEURSHIP • PLANNING SESSION MODEL • COMPUTER MODEL • SUGGESTOPEDIC MODEL • BRAIN STORM MODEL • COOPERATIVE MODEL

  19. CURRICULAR AIMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN MY SCHOOL • How is entrepreneurship seen in value base discussions _________________________________________________________________ • How is entrepreneurship education carried out in the school a) as projects b) included within different subject? _________________________________________________________________ • The first aim of entrepreneurship education in the school is _________________________________________________________________ • The second aim is _________________________________________________________________

  20. CURRICULAR AIMS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN MY SCHOOL • What teaching methods do i use in entrepreneurship education? ________________________________________________________________ • How is the utilisation of new technology according to the principles of the new curriculum seen in entrepreneurship education? ________________________________________________________________ • Which teachers am I cooperating with in entrepreneurship education? ________________________________________________________________

  21. Tacit Knowledge –learning by doing methodin Tuusniemi (In East Finland, 2008)

  22. New knowledge • the pupil interviewed by e-mail at his project work researchmanager in Vacon Oyj, in Tampere. • Pupil: How do the new ideas develope? • Researchmanager: First there must be a problem. Usually I wake up early in the morning and ”heureka” I see the solution….but it is difficult to tell another…it is intuition (new knowledge) and… the idea must be tested…in our company • At the end of task pupil evaluated what kind of knowledge he learned in Vacon Oyj. • (Sampola school in Tampere, 2008.)

  23. Teacher’s knowledge and pupils’ knowledge • Teacher interviewed manager of Vacon Oyj in Solna in Sweden.Teacher: Do you know what kind of expertise (knowledge)you have in our personnel in your company?Manager: I think I know… It is important to know what knowlege is important to our business strategy…. • At the end of task pupil and teacher evaluated together.what they learned…. knowledge management, new knowledge about the international company of Vacon Oyj. NETWORK:Federation of SwedishEnterprises, Stockholm ,Sweden.

  24. The Star High School –project, TAT, Helsinki(new) • Interviewer:What kind of expertise do you need in principal´s work? • P: networking • P: to lead the staff is very important and in future it is more and more important • P: expense knowledge… (It is continue in 2008). • The theoretical background of The Star High School project based on doctoral thesis: Expertise of Small Business Entrepreneurs in the competition arena:Tampere University of Technology, Ojala. A. (2007)

  25. Tampere University of Technology Department of Industrial Management and Engineering Institute of Business Information Management Dr. Ojala, Auli Expertise of Small Business Entrepreneurs in the competition arena Keyword: knowledge management, competence, entrepreneur, enterprise ABSTRACT The main research task was to accomplish a macrolevel description of the competition arena of the small entrepreneur and a microlevel description of the expertise of the small entrepreneur from the perspective of the work, the small enterprise and the entrepreneurial environment. Competition arena refers to the entrepreneurial environment of the small business entrepreneur and on the macrolevel to the global entrepreneurial environment.

  26. The research object comprised 29 small business entrepreneurs whose companies werelocated in Pirkanmaa (the Tampere region in southern Finland). The branches includedrepresent extremes: enterprises utilising high technology and enterprises in the traditional metal industry. Fourteen technology firms and 15 metal firms were included in the study. The theoretical frame of reference is based on the process model of the organisations’ knowledge creation developed by Nonaka and Takeuchi. This is supplemented with the management by information competencebased, individualcentred collectivemanagement information of Mahoney & Sanchez and van den Bosch and van Wijk.

  27. The study applies Porter’s diamond model for purposes of analysing the entrepreneurial environment of the small business entrepreneur and this is complemented by threat andopportunity factors with bearing on the field.The empirical material of the study was gathered using various information acquisition methods: interview questionnaire, recorded interviews and field diaries based on observations. The study employs Strauss’s grounded theory approach. The research findings show that the high technology entrepreneurs are constantly involved with new information.

  28. The high technology entrepreneurs linked information closely with the frame of reference of management by expertise and utilised the new strategic information as business expertise and technology expertise. Moreover, the high technology entrepreneurs had a holistic understanding and ability to make abstractions on the further development of their field as an intuition. Thus the high technology entrepreneurs’ information concept is closer to ‘knowing why’ than ‘knowing how’.

  29. The management expertise of the small business owners in the metal industrydemonstrated more operative features than that of the high technology entrepreneurs. The management expertise of the metal firms was professional expertise of the entrepreneur, the utilisation of information in certain substantial areas within the profession. Thus the knowledge concept of the entrepreneurs in the metal industry was closer to ‘knowing how’. The main contribution of the study lies in the distinction madebetween the knowledge of the small business entrepreneurs which were the subjects of the research.

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