| Entrepreneurship Education in Germany: Teaching Risk Ventures in a Risk-Averse Society |  |
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| Daniel Evans | View
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| The famous
German Wirschaftswunder economy is heading for trouble. High labor
costs receive much of the blame for economic stagnation and unemployment,
but there is at least one other major factor: very few start-up
enterprises, and very few entrepreneurs to start them. The German
social market economy is a compromise synthesis of free market
economics with a highly-developed social protection net designed
to avoid the uncertainties which create anxieties and social unrest.
This economic structure, based on uncertainty avoidance, discourages
entrepreneurship. The START Intra-Entrepreneurship Center at the
University of Kassel is a formal educational program to teach
and encourage entrepreneurship in a society which avoids risks
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