日本のアントレプレナーシップ教育プログラムの軌跡と今後

抄録

In the early 2000s government policymakers acknowledged the importance of innovation in restarting the economy and identified the national universities as a driver for increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. Under the National University Corporation Law which took effect in 2004, the universities were made independent from the national government and given the mandate to disseminate and utilize their research and knowledge for the benefit of society.

This paper examines the correlation of the economic malaise to the decline of Japanese entrepreneurial innovation and the increasing importance of entrepreneurship education. The University of Tokyo provides an example of how entrepreneurship education has been evolving over the last fourteen years in the university reform.