Educational Entrepreneurship within UK Schools

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explain the nature of educational entrepreneurship by synthesising the literature on individual and organisational entrepreneurial behaviour with educational research evidence. This paper, based on survey and case study material in the East Midlands region of the UK tests two main hypotheses. Firstly, that educational entrepreneurship exists and is a necessary, if not sufficient conditions for successful education quasi-market activity and secondly, that educational innovation is dependent upon educational entrepreneurs initiating and creating the conditions for entrepreneurial activity within their own organisation. This paper notes that entrepreneurial school Principals have a general understanding of mnarket orientation and that they are in a slrategic position to effect entrepreneurial activity in their schools and in the broader social and economic community. apparently complicated way as the uniform rate of profit (interest) changes. It is shown here how a certain simplicity of movement (monotonicity) can be detected.