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August.2.2017 “Entrepreneurship and Education”
Mr. Takaki Minamoto
Mr.Takaki Minamoto: He is an alumnus KIP. He founded M & Associates, a corporation for logistics and trading.
This forum fell into two parts. First part was about the speech of Mr. Takaki Minamoto and Q and A about his speech. Second was about the discussion which title is “The pros and cons of introducing entrepreneurship programs into compulsory education”. In this session, students discussed with this issue.
In his first speech, he talked about the difference between entrepreneur and businessman, examples of entrepreneur, some reasons of why the Silicon Valley is favored by entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs in education. He spoke about these 4 issues. First, he defined the entrepreneur as a “change maker”. The difference of entrepreneur and the businessman is that the latter one wants to do a business and the former one wants to change something and contribute to his society. The examples of entrepreneur is Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Bill Gates made a Microsoft and developed IT. Furthermore, thanks to his development, anyone can get the information and send it regardless of their status. For example, in caste system in India, people can approach this system easily regardless of their rank. Also, Steve Jobs made a computer into a smaller one. Therefore, people can get the information easily and listen to music regardless of where they are and when it is. That is, entrepreneurs not only do a business but also contribute to their society as a change maker.
These a lot of entrepreneurs prefer Silicon Valley. The reason of this preference is that the percentage of failing in business is very low there because this place has a lot of resources of business. Also, they have interest in education. In the past, they try to develop the field of IT, but now education is favored by them as a blue ocean. The reason is that old and rich people prefer to invest and spend a lot of money on real estate, journey, and the field of education. He mentioned that the example of entrepreneur in education system is "Teach for America". The purpose of this program is solving the unfairness of education from economic inequality. In this program, students who graduate from prestigious universities like Ivy League, support the education system for lower-income group. These examples contribute to American society a lot. However, people who have the nationality of each country have advantages in succeeding in business as an entrepreneurs in the country because each country has own education system.
The second part of the forum is about discussion which title is “The pros and cons of introducing entrepreneurship programs into compulsory education”. In this discussion, the concept of entrepreneurship education was divided into improving psychological factors and practical skills. First, we defined psychological factor as challenge spirit to various experiences and defined practical skills as the ones required to be an entrepreneur. The advantage of introducing entrepreneurship programs into compulsory education is that this system can make many entrepreneurs in each country so economic power of each country will become larger. Also, students can become more independent. Contrary to these advantages, weakness of institutionalizing this system is unrealistic. The last evaluation of this discussion was that entrepreneurship education can promote the independence and receptive capacity of various opinions because entrepreneurs have to challenge something on their own and accept various opinions with a wide view. That is, these factors can help the progress of each country.
Through this forum, I felt the importance of education and the real meaning of entrepreneurship: Practical skills for entrepreneur and receptive capacity of various visions.
(Kie Kang)