COLLECTION – (Faculty Publications 2025-2026)

TitleFrom Classrooms to Startups: Entrepedagogy as a Catalyst for Educational Reform
Author(s)Dr.B.Rohini
FileBR-Book-Chapter-Sep-25.pdf
Abstract

Traditional educational paradigms are becoming increasingly out of sync with the changing needs of the startup ecosystem in an age marked by rapid technological advancement and entrepreneurial disruption. The transformative approach of entrepedagogy, a hybrid pedagogical framework that combines entrepreneurial thinking with curriculum design, emerges as a means of empowering students with mindsets that are venture-oriented, creative, and adaptive. This paper maintains that education serves as a launch pad for innovation, resilience, and value creation as well as a path to
employment. Moving beyond rote memorization and siloed disciplines, entrepedagogy emphasizes experiential learning, iterative problem-solving, and interdisciplinary collaboration. We investigate how entrepedagogy can foster a culture of experimentation within academic institutions, decentralize traditional knowledge hierarchies, empower student agency, and decentralize traditional knowledge hierarchies through case studies, curriculum prototypes, and policy implications. Ultimately, this rethinking of education aligns learning environments with the realities of the startup era, fostering the next generation of founders, change makers, and lifelong learners.
Keywords: Knowledge, Education, Students, learning, skills,