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8. How is it possible to use customer’s feedback in the organization?
9. How does intellectual capital work?
10. Summarize the text.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND INFORMATION

PROFESSIONALS
By H.N. Eke
U. Igwesi
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D.I. Orji
In the world of business today, entrepreneurship revolution has
taken hold across the globe. Kuratko (2005) stated that entrepreneurship
is more than the mere creation of business.

Entrepreneurship is a dynamic process of vision, change, and
creation. It requires an application of energy and passion towards the
creation and implementation of new ideas and creative solutions.

Essential ingredients include the willingness to take calculated risks-in
terms of time, equity, or career; the ability to formulate an effective
venture team; the creative skill to marshal needed resources; and

fundamental skill of building solid business plan; and finally, the vision
to recognize opportunity where others see chaos, contradiction, and
confusion (Kuratko & Hodgetts, 2004, p. 30).
Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the

knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success
in a variety of settings. It focuses o realization of opportunity, where
management education is focused on the best way to operate existing

hierarchies.
The role of information professionals in aiding entrepreneurship
education cannot be over-emphasized, especially now that researchers
are continually striving to learn more about the entire entrepreneurial

process to better understand the driving forces within entrepreneurs
(Bull & Willard, 1993; Bygrave & Hofer, 1991; Gartner, 2001). The
major function of information professionals in entrepreneurship

education is information provision. They act as information suppliers to

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Eke H. N. Entrepreneurship Education and Information Professionals / H. N. Eke, U.
Igwesi, D. I Orji // Library Philosophy and Practice. – 2010. – Available at :
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/eke-igwesi-orji.htm