There
are clear rationales signaling the need for change in the way graduates think
and behave and accordingly we suggest that the Business School is ideally
positioned to deliver on future workplace skills requirements. It is incumbent on
Business Schools to take the lead in delivering education to all disciplines across
the university, facilitating access to a suite of more innovative,
differentiated programmes with mutually beneficial value propositions for
students, employers and society in general. Working with colleagues from differing
disciplines, Business School faculty must collaborate in the design of an
entrepreneurship curriculum that provides
students with a transformational entrepreneurial learning experience based on
experiential and problem based learning approaches. In this chapter, we seek to contribute to the
burgeoning interest in the development of entrepreneurial skills and
competencies in non-business disciplines by reviewing experiences of a
cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship programme between the Department of
Clinical Therapies and a Business School, in an Irish university whose aim is
to ‘demystify and inspire enterprising activity for Occupational Therapy and
Physiotherapy students’. The research raises questions concerning how Business
Schools can partner to best develop programmes with the most appropriate balance
of ‘expert’ and ‘local’ knowledge and to do so in the understanding of the
industry sector and professional parameters of the health professions. We summarise
our main learnings from this programme to inform future programmes for these
students and discuss how such a programme can be applied to other non-business
disciplines. The chapter closes with some practical implications and presents
opportunities for further research.