Academic spinoffs: the role of entrepreneurship education

Sansone, Giuliano; Battaglia, Daniele; Landoni, Paolo; Paolucci, Emilio

doi:10.1007/s11365-019-00601-9

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“…Therefore, entrepreneurship education is a valuable instrument that affects students as members of society as a whole, and not (just) as scholars in the classroom (Farny et al 2016). There are now clear indications that universities are improving their curricular and extracurricular entrepreneurial activities (Hannon 2007;Souitaris et al 2007;Wilson et al 2007;Arranz et al 2017;Varano et al 2019) in order to encourage students to become enterprising (Pittaway and Cope 2007;Sansone et al 2019).…”

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“…The need for further research on the impact of entrepreneurship education on students in different contexts was advanced by Vanevenhoven (2013) and Fiore et al (2019). Entrepreneurship education can imply different teaching methods (Nabi et al 2017;Sansone et al 2019) and contents (which should be more theory or practice oriented). Mwasalwiba (2010) found twenty-six different teaching methods of entrepreneurship.…”

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“…It has been pointed out that entrepreneurship courses are generally too theoretical (Raffo et al 2000;Feldman 2001;Rasmussen and Sørheim 2006;do Paço et al 2011). However, it is well known that entrepreneurship cannot be learned from theory alone (Cope and Watts 2000;Klofsten 2000;Feldman 2001;Fiet 2001;Pittaway et al 2011;Kassean et al 2015;Sansone et al 2019). In this context, it is necessary to encourage critical and reflective approaches to entrepreneurship education (Siegel and Wright 2015).…”

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Entrepreneurial intention: An analysis of the role of Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations

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Although a great deal of attention has been paid to entrepreneurship education, only a few studies have analysed the impact of extra-curricular entrepreneurial activities on students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this study is to fill this gap by exploring the role played by Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations (SLEOs) in shaping the entrepreneurial intention of their members. The analysis is based on a survey that was conducted in 2016 by one of the largest SLEOs in the world: the Junior Enterprises Europe (JEE). The main result of the empirical analysis is that the more time students spent on JEE and the higher the number of events students attended, the greater their entrepreneurial intention was. It has been found that other important drivers also increase students’ entrepreneurial intention, that is, the Science and Technology field of study and the knowledge of more than two foreign languages. These results confirm that SLEOs are able to foster students’ entrepreneurial intention. The findings provide several theoretical, practical and public policy implications. SLEOs are encouraged to enhance their visibility and lobbying potential in order to be recognized more as drivers of student entrepreneurship. In addition, it is advisable for universities and policy makers to support SLEOs by fostering their interactions with other actors operating in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, who promote entrepreneurship and technology transfer activities. Lastly, this paper advises policy makers to assist SLEOs’ activities inside and outside the university context.

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“…Only a few contributions have considered the impact on the other entrepreneurship phases (Muscio & Ramaciotti, 2019;Puni, Anlesinya, Dzigbordi & Korsorku, 2018). Furthermore, extant literature paid little attention to specific forms of education, such as curricular and extracurricular activities or the availability of practical entrepreneurship courses (Arranz, Ubierna, Arroyabe, Perez & Fedez De Arroyabe 2017;Sansone, Battaglia, Landoni & Paolucci, 2019). The variables in this dimension bring out different perspectives for the analysis of the impact of entrepreneurship education: some authors consider the education as an enabler for entrepreneurship in academia (Bergmann, Geissler, Hundt & Grave, 2018;Fernández Pérez, Montes Merino, Rodriguez Ariza & Alonso Galicia, 2019;Urban & Chantson, 2019), others consider entrepreneurship education as a form of support provided by universities (Mustafa, Hernandez, Mahon & Chee, 2016;Saeed, Yousafzai, Yani De Soriano & Muffatto, 2015;Trivedi, 2016;Zamrudi & Yulianti, 2020).…”

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A theory-driven model of the spin-off creation process: A Social Information Processing perspective

Opizzi

Loi

2021

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This work contributes to the field of Academic Entrepreneurship by providing a theory-driven explanation of spin-off creation, conceptualized as a process that includes the following phases: opportunity identification, entrepreneurial intentions and spin-off creation. Illuminated by the Social Information Processing Theory, it looks at the role of individual and organizational factors in the process of spin-off creation. Based on a Systematic Literature Review-we highlight how each process' phase has been studied and which individual and organizational factors are more relevant in influencing the spin-off creation process. Drawing from our results, we elaborate a conceptual framework that proposes a research agenda for the mechanisms connecting individual and organizational issues in the process of spin-off creation.

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“…An entrepreneur-level factor important in explaining firm growth is human capital, such as the educational level, especially university degree, and the skills and experience of the owners, which are found to have a significant impact on firm performance (Belas et al, 2019;Black & Lynch, 1996;Camis on-Haba et al, 2019;Gennaioli et al, 2013) and also contribute to social and technological change (Dalmarco et al, 2018;Sansone et al, 2019). However in some previous studies in transition, university education is found to have negative impact on firm growth signalling the low quality of the education system in such countries (Bartlett & Bukvi c, 2001;Xheneti & Bartlett, 2012).…”

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Does informality help entrepreneurs achieve firm growth? evidence from a post-conflict economy

Krasniqi

Williams

2020

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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This article evaluates the impact of starting-up unregistered and operating informally on small firm growth in Kosovo, the country with the highest levels of informality in Western Balkans. The study uses mixed research methods as an inquiry to combining both qualitative and quantitative forms. Reporting data from 487 business owners extracted from a 2017 nationally representative survey of 8,533 households in Kosovo, 47.7 percent had startedup unregistered and were operating informally at the time of the survey. Using an instrumental variable (IV) estimation with a binary endogenous regressor to estimate the impact of informality (a treatment group) on small firm growth (control group), while controlling for other entrepreneur and firm determinants, a strong positive effect of the informality on firm growth is identified. Entrepreneurs operating informally had an 11.6 percentage points higher probability of achieving their firm growth objectives compared with entrepreneurs operating formally. Yet, the qualitative interviews revealed that growth objectives of small firms were limited, so the unregistered firms outperformed registered firms only under the modest growth objectives. Taking into account the limitations of the study, the implications for theory and policy are proposed to tackle the informality such as incentives of government small business support programs.

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Academic spinoffs: the role of entrepreneurship education

Cited by 56 publications

References 141 publications

Entrepreneurial intention: An analysis of the role of Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations

Entrepreneurial intention: An analysis of the role of Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations

A theory-driven model of the spin-off creation process: A Social Information Processing perspective

Does informality help entrepreneurs achieve firm growth? evidence from a post-conflict economy

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