Importance of Entrepreneurship in the Economy and Pharmacy Profession
Session 3: Importance of Entrepreneurship in the
Economy and Pharmacy Profession
Total Session Time: 60 minutes +2 hours of Assignment/ Tutorial
Prerequisites
Learning Tasks
By the end of this session students are expected to be able to:
Resources Needed:
SESSION OVERVIEW
Activity/
Step Time Content
Method
1 05 minutes Presentation Introduction, Learning Tasks
05 minutes Definition of Entrepreneurship Importance
2 Presentation
15 minutes Presentation
General Importance of Entrepreneurship In
3 Buzzing
Economy
25minutes Presentation Specific Importance of Entrepreneurship in
4
Pharmacy Profession
5 05 minutes Presentation Key Points
6 05 minutes Presentation Evaluation
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SESSION CONTENTS
STEP 1: Presentation of Session Title and Learning Tasks (5 minutes)
READ or ASK students to read the learning tasks and clarify
ASK students if they have any questions before continuing.
STEP 2: Entrepreneurship importance (5 minutes)
and prosperity:
o Entrepreneurship is the dynamic process of creating incremental wealth and
innovating things of value that have a bearing on the welfare of an entrepreneur.
o It provides civilization with an enormous amount of goods and services and enhances
the growth of social welfare
o The man behind the entrepreneurship is an action-oriented and highly motivated
individual who is ready to achieve goals
STEP 3: General Importance of Entrepreneurship (15 minutes)
Activity: Buzzing (5 minutes)
ASK students to pair up and buzz on the following question for 2 minutes
ALLOW few pairs to respond and let other pairs to add on points not mentioned
WRITE their response on the flip chart/board
CLARIFY and SUMMARIZE by using the content below
o It is the source of income generation
o Improves quality of products and services
o It leads to business competition which eventually improves the wellbeing of the
society
o Entrepreneurship helps people to improve their socioeconomic life.
o It is the source of satisfying people‘s needs and wants.
o It can be used to transform the lives of people within a certain area.
o It is the source of employment.
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o It helps to solve problems such as public health problems, accessibility to clean and
safe water etc.
o It improves economic status of an individual, family and community at large
o It improves the income of the country.
o It is the source of employment
STEP 4: Specific Importance of Entrepreneurship in Pharmacy Profession
(25 minutes)
Activity: Brainstorming (5 minutes)
Ask students to brainstorm on the following question:
ALLOW few students to respond
WRITE their responses on the flip chart/ board
CLARIFY and SUMMARISE by using the content below
things of value that have a bearing on the welfare of an entrepreneur.
growth of social welfare.
individual who is ready to achieve goals
state of progress and prosperity
entrepreneurship which is stated below.
o Growth of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship the advent of new venture particularly small ventures in order to
materialize the innovative ideas of the entrepreneurs.
Thus, the growth or establishment of small enterprises ii the specific contribution
of entrepreneurship in every economy of the world.
The statistics reveal that in USA economy nearly half a million small enterprises
is established every year.
Our country is not an exception in this regard.
o Creation of job opportunities
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Entrepreneurship firms contributed a large share of new jobs.
It provides entry-level jobs so necessary fur training or gaining experience for
unskilled workers
The small enterprises are the only sector that generates a large portion of total
employment every year
Moreover, entrepreneurial ventures prepare and supply experienced labor to the
large industries
o Innovation
Entrepreneurship is the incubator of the innovation.
Innovation creates disequilibria in the present state of order.
It goes beyond discovery and does implementation and commercialization, of
innovations.
―Leapfrog‖ innovation, research, and development are being contributed by
entrepreneurship.
Thus, entrepreneurship nurse‘s innovation that provides new ventures, product,
technology, market, quality of good etc. to the economy that increases Gross
Domestic Products and standard of living of the people.
o Impact on community development
A community is better off if its employment base is diversified among many small
entrepreneurial firms.
It promotes abundant retail facilities, a higher level of home ownership, fewer
slums, better, sanitation standards and higher expenditure on education,
recreation, and religious activities.
Thus, entrepreneurship leads to more stability and a higher quality of community
life.
o The consequence of business failure
The collapse of large industry almost has irresistible damage to the development
of state and to the state of the economy and to the financial condition of the
relevant persons.
The incumbents lost their jobs: suppliers and financial institutions face a crisis of
recovery.
Customers are deprived of goods, services, and the government losses taxes.
This could not happen in the case of failure of entrepreneurship.
There shall be no measurable effect upon the economy and no political
repercussions too.
o Political and economic integration of outsiders
Entrepreneurship is the most effective way of integrating those who feel disposed
and alienated into the economy.
Minorities, migrants, and women are safely integrated into entrepreneurship that
will help to develop a well-composed plural society.
o Spawns entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the nursing ground for new inexperienced adventurists.
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It is the field where a person can start his/her idea of the venture, which may be
ended up in a giant enterprise.
All the large industrial ventures started as a small entrepreneurial enterprise.
Therefore, entrepreneurship provides a wide spectrum of ventures and
entrepreneurs in every economy.
The vast open arena of entrepreneurship thus acts as an incubator to entrepreneurs.
o Enhances standard of living
Standard of living is a concept built on increasing amount of consumption of a
variety of goods and services over a particular period by a household.
So it depends on the availability of diversified products in the market.
Entrepreneurship provides enormous kinds of a product of various natures by their
innovation.
Besides, it increases the income of the people who are employed in the
entrepreneurial enterprises.
Those also capable employed persons to consume more goods and services. In
effect, entrepreneurship enhances the standard of living of the people of a country.
o Promotes pharmaceutical research and development
Entrepreneurship is innovation and hence the innovated ideas of goods and
services have to be tested by experimentation.
Therefore, entrepreneurship provides funds for pharmaceutical research and
development with universities and research institutions.
This promotes the general development, research, and development in the
economy.
Entrepreneurship is the pioneering zeal that provides events in our civilization.
STEP 6: Key Points (5 minutes)
and prosperity
commercial
opportunities, innovation, promoting pharmaceutical research and development; just to
mention a few
STEP 7: Evaluation (5minutes)
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