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This publication has as a premise that entrepreneurship education and training for the existing, potential, and future entrepreneur has become increasingly in demand during the past decade, and is designed to assist the entrepreneurial leadership in vocational education and other constituencies interested in entrepreneurial training and/or education to form synergistic networking teams to attack the problem. It has five chapters: (1) Why entrepreneurship discusses the need for entrepreneurship and the five stages of entrepreneurship as a lifelong process; (2) Entrepreneurship opportunities, with projections made for the 1980s and 1990s; (3) Agenda for action, in which the issue of leadership development is discussed. Also included is action plans for lead states, presenting an agenda for action that describes entrepreneurship education activities being conducted by Federal agencies, states, national organizations, Oklahoma State University, and the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Benefits to be gained and challenges for the future are also described in this chapter; (4) Details the action plans being implemented in the nine lead states of Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas; and (5) Fourteen recommendations that can be used to help vocational education leaders make an impact on the development of entrepreneurship are discussed in this chapter. Appendixes to the report include the U.S. Department of Education policy statement on entrepreneurship education, White House statements by the President, and definitions of terms.