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demic and theoretical; focus enough!
0: What do you do on behaviours and attitudes is Q: If somebody said: "I will
with the different lacking. Entrepreneurship, we support your program-
business schools? say, is a way out of poverty. me, what do you need
That's the reason why we and what would you like to
With business schools, would like to involve business achieve?
we are trying to link up schools to work with the poor
our programme. We are and encourage them -- buil- We would like to double that
trying to participate in ding awareness about what we number of trainees in five
their network and to need to do to get people out of years. We may not be able to
than men because of cultural develop new business models poverty. People cannot conti- increase dramatically the num-
issues. In certain countries, for the poor. We would like nue being poor, and we would ber of training centres though
women would not go to a business schools in as many like to encourage them to get due to funding constraints.
bank alone. It's difficult to
countries as possible to think out of poverty and build up
change such behaviours but, along these lines, encouraging their wealth. Often it can be My other goal is that I would
little by little, we teach them like to increase the number of
done, and people have a lot of
invest-
entrepreneurship, women participants up to 50%.
that they can achieve self-
ments, etc. energy for survival. But if you At the moment, we have 30%.
confidence. can also make them think "I These are my goals: we should
0: Is it difficult to draw can do better, I can improve have more Judiths, more entre-
We are also doing a study on
the attention of business my life", there is a change. preneurs, more schools so that
"women, innovation and
schools to entrepre- Also development aid is not these entrepreneurs can become
entrepreneurship". We are stu-
neurship? designed to maintain them in a role model. Of course, mobi-
dying some Nordic countries poverty but to get them out of lising resources for education is
and comparing them to deve-
There is a lot of interest from poverty. We believe it's possi- always an issue, but the
loping countries. Although the business schools in entrepre- ble. I wish we had more Empretec methodology and its
results have not yet been
neurship, and quite a number resources to make changes in business plan are good. If not,
published, there are some more people's lives. 200,000 we would not have survived in
of them have well-developed
really interesting findings that people since 1988 have been Argentina, Ghana nor in Brazil
courses. However, the main
will be released within the trained around the world, but for more than twenty years!
problem is the traditional edu-
year showing which are the it's not enough! We have been
cation model of business
obstacles for women to inno- schools which is still very aca- operating for twenty years in
vate in business. thirty-two countries, but it's not
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