CAN entrepreneurship be taught? That was the rhetorical question posed by US agricultural academic Randy Westgren on a recent visit to Melbourne. "I hope so because I'm teaching it," Professor Westgren, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Missouri told his audience at a lunch presented by the Marcus Oldham College Centre for the Study of Rural Australia.
Participants in the four-module course, taught by Prof Westgren (pictured), designed around the agricultural and food sector, have ranged in age from 22 to 72.
The first thing they are taught is "opportunity recognition".
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