Entrepreneurial Education at the Tertiary Level of Bangladesh

Abstract

An entrepreneurial mindset is essential to a nation’s socio-economic growth, but it has not been established in the proper way among the people of Bangladesh. The aim of this study is to infer the role of university-based academic programs in developing entrepreneurial ecosystem growth in this country. Daffodil The international university has been taken as a case study for this research purpose. The study shows that interdisciplinary academic programs that focus on practical and experimental works, regardless of major in the higher educational institution, have a great impact in creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem. It also gives us a broad view that university plays as a driving force in changing the entrepreneurship culture. Various external factors hold a major position in successful startup ventures in the university environment. A model framework has been designed to show the role of a university to promote and explore the concept of the entrepreneurial ecosystem at the inter level.