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Enhancing Entrepreneurship Education in Russia
By Emily Meyertholen, Beyster Institute Staff
  The Beyster Institute works directly with entrepreneurs from all over the world to encourage and equip them to lead their companies toward growth. We also help others to reach many more aspiring and established entrepreneurs through one of our specialties: entrepreneurship education training programs for business and entrepreneurship instructors.
These programs promote the use of innovative new methods of entrepreneurship education, which instructors can apply toward their own university courses. The Institute has presented customized versions of this training for university faculty from South Asia, and, most recently, for a group of Russian educators.
The Dynamic Entrepreneurship Classroom seminar was presented to 28 Russian university instructors and administrators at the Moscow Higher School of Economics in October. This customized three-day seminar was sponsored by the U.S.-Russia Center for Entrepreneurship and presented by the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego in cooperation with the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Participants hailed from 19 different institutions of higher learning throughout Russia, including Perm, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg and Samara. Attendees included professors as well as department heads, deans and directors. The seminar was presented by Ray Smilor and Rob Fuller of the Beyster Institute and Mike Morris and Minet Schindehutte of the Whitman School at Syracuse.
Participants were introduced to effective methods of teaching entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial marketing and business planning through the use of case studies and experiential exercises, and each participant selected a course to implement when they returned home. Roughly half of the participants had entrepreneurship courses already in place, and others have planned to offer courses in the future.
As the program graduates begin new courses in the new year, we look forward to hearing about the new and effective ways in which they instill the entrepreneurial spirit in their students.
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