Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-374).

Contents: Entrepreneurship as a subject of study -- The concept of entrepreneurial education -- A decade of entrepreneurship :the underlying imperatives of entrepreneurship education in ghana -- The need to promote develop entrepreneurship in ghana -- Understanding entrepreneurship -- Nature and development of entrepreneurship:some evolutionary -- Conceptualizing the phenomenon of entrepreneurship -- The different entrepreneurial school of thought -- Entrepreneurship as multidisciplinary perspective -- Entrepreneurship and social progress -- Toward a universal definition -the view of schumpeter -- Model and ''theories'' of entrepreneurship -- Academic entrepreneurship -- Role model and mentorship -- Ghana's development experiences -- Profile of entrepreneurship in ghana -- The different manifestation of entrepreneurial activities -- Stereotypes of entrepreneurs in ghana -- Taxonomy of entrepreneurial competencies -- Entrepreneurship and innovation -- Innovation defined -- Developing the innovative process -- Innovation amd public policy -- Diffusion of innovations -- Financial support for innovation -- Network and entrepreneurial activities -- Perceptive of network theory -- Ghana as an organizing context for entrepreneurship -- An insight into the political economy of ghana -- bureaucratic institution and entrepreneurship in ghana -- The legal environment and entrepreneurial activities -- The ghana business code -- Ghanaian culture and development of entrepreneurship -- The venture creation process -- A model of entrepreneurship motivation-entrepreneurship intent -- The process of commercializing a business idea -- Writing a business plan -- Entrepreneurial finance:finance the venture -- Structure and key stakeholders of micro-finance in ghana -- Why SME credit schemes have been ineffective -- Managing the venture -- Managing your information system -- Monitoring the operations of the enterprise -- Understanding your balance sheet -- Importance of human resource to the Enterprise -- Drivers of SME growth and wealth creation -- Succession planning or tarn-generational shift -- Some cause of enterprise failures -- Need for an enabling environment -- Monitoring the environment -- The parameters and attributes of the environment -- Business and competition -- Critical success factors (CSFs) -- strategic planning -- Small and medium enterprise (SMEs): development and growth and management -- Definition of SMEs -- Growth strategies -- challenges of SMEs in ghana -- Consulting for SMEs -- Promoting entrepreneurial activities in regions and district of ghana -- International entrepreneurship -- Business exit:some strategies -- Exhibits -- References -- Other documentary sources of data -- Question on entrepreneurship