Furthermore, it is recommended that at least one of the three following courses are required to be studied by all students at the University of Botswana: A strengths-based course in personal and professional career development Foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship New venture start-up project. The course topics are directly linked to develop competencies required to embrace all elements of the entrepreneurial process model, developed by Bolton and Thompson (2001). A series of course topics is outlined for delivery as workshops and/or educational programmes through the proposed Entrepreneurship Development Centre. Furthermore, these entrepreneurs provide leadership in creating substantial forms of wealth - financial and/or social - from the new opportunities they identify, exploit, and grow into sustainable organisations. However, these habitual innovators participate in leading substantial business and social change in the communities for which they create and provide new products or new service delivery systems. They are ‘weirdly wired’ people, who some might regard as ‘mad’ or ‘crazy’ in view of the risks they appear to take. They are habitual and compulsive in their passion for innovation and creating substantial new enterprise. The job-makers and wealth creators that Botswana requires are termed ‘serial innovators and entrepreneurs’. One approach to overcoming these persistent problems is to create an abundance of “grass roots” support for enterprising behavior throughout the nation. Furthermore, Botswana's impressive record of growth has not translated into socioeconomic transformation: "Over-dependence on diamonds, high unemployment levels and unacceptably high levels of poverty and inequality - both in terms of assets and income - are persistent problems." (Clover, 2003, p. The principal focus of Botswana’s current formal education system seems mainly to educate job-takers for the public sector and larger companies. Accordingly, the education and development system required for Botswana's 21st century global citizen must extend to include identifying and developing job-makers: world-class entrepreneurs and innovators. In contrast, at the time of independence in 1966 the country was a traditional hunter-gatherer village-based society. The country has embarked on a journey to make the quantum jump to a country with world-class, high-growth companies by 2016. Botswana has set itself the challenge of becoming an ‘innovative and prosperous nation’. Recommendations to the University beyond the Faculty of Business are also made. "This report presents recommendations to the University of Botswana’s Faculty of Business for extending substantially its Business Clinic into an Entrepreneurship Development Centre.
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