1. faculty of entrepreneurship Tehran university Handbook of research in entrepreneurship education Dr.arabion Nafise taghavi May 2010
2. Strategies for teaching entrepreneurship A crucial emerging trend: Training students to identify and/or create business opportunities
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4. According to Shane and venkatarman (2000), the fundamental question asked by entrepreneurship research should be concerned whit, why , in what circumstance and how some people and not others are able to discover and exploit emerging opportunities within existing organization or by creating new, innovative firms.
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6. More recently Ardichvili et al. (2003) showed that opportunity identification leading to the creation of new businesses appears to be one of the most important skills of successful entrepreneurs.
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9. Gundry and Kickul (1996) propose that students be taught to use a certain number of creativity techniques, and suggest conceptual creative methods such as mind-mapping. Divergent thinking, brainstorming, lateral thinking, metaphorical techniques and split-brain comparison. They also propose behaviour – cantered methods such as board games, music-making, drawing and visualization ( picture simulation)