Education and Entrepreneurship Experiences From Secondary and University Education in Belgium

Donckels, Rik

doi:10.1080/08276331.1991.10600389

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“…The assertion that entrepreneurship education leads to increased entrepreneurial intentions and therefore to more new venture formation may seem intuitive. However, despite the recognition that education and prior entrepreneurial experiences influence people's attitudes towards starting their own business, the impact of entrepreneurship education on intentions to found a business has remained relatively untested (Donckels, 1991;Kruegel Jr and Brazeal, 1994). Moreover, on closer inspection the claim turns out to be less than trivial.…”

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The effects of entrepreneurship education

Graevenitz

Harhoff

Weber³

2010

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship. We develop a theoretical model of Bayesian learning in which entrepreneurship education generates signals which help students to evaluate their own aptitude for entrepreneurial tasks. We derive predictions from the model and test them using data from a compulsory entrepreneurship course at a German university. Using survey responses from 189 students ex ante and ex post, we find that entrepreneurial propensity declined somewhat in spite of generally good evaluations of the class. Our tests of Bayesian updating provide support for the notion that students receive valuable signals and learn about their own type in the entrepreneurship course.JEL Classification: D83, J24, L26, M13

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confidence: 88%

The effects of entrepreneurship education

Graevenitz

Harhoff

Weber³

2010

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

660

433

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“…Despite the recognition that education and prior entrepreneurial experiences influence people's attitudes towards starting their own business, the impact of entrepreneurship or enterprise education, as distinct from general education, on attitudes or perceptions of entrepreneurship has remained relatively untested (Donckels, 1991;Krueger & Brazeal, 1994). Career socialization theory proposes that the decision to initiate a career is influenced by many social factors including exposure to educational experiences (Dyer, 1994).…”

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Advancing Entrepreneurship in An Elementary School: A Case Study

Heilbrunn¹

2010

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The aim of the paper is to introduce an experimental entrepreneurial elementary school in Israel. In addition to describing the organizational process of transformation from a conventional elementary school to an entrepreneurial school, the paper attempts to assess the impact of the process on teachers and pupils. The study investigates organizational culture, innovativeness of the school, the principal's proactivity and the entrepreneurial drive of pupils. The findings reveal that the interface of organizational culture fostering innovation, proactivity of the principal and a well defined project outline enables young pupils to learn about entrepreneurship, to learn to be entrepreneurial and to learn to become an entrepreneur. Since childhood and adolescence are the preferred periods in order to develop positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship and acquire basic knowledge on the issue, the presented case can provide a model for further educational undertakings fostering entrepreneurship in the future.

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“…In order to encourage entrepreneurs, university can play a vital role in supporting Research & Development (R&D) and teaching entrepreneurship to students (P. Davidsson, Low, & Wright, 2001) (Haase & Lautenschlager, 2011) (Elaine & Gray, 2013). According to (Donckels, 1991), main purpose of entrepreneurial education is to create awarness of entrepreneurship among individuals, which further leads to change in attitude towards entrepreneurship…”

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Measuring Entrepreneurial Readiness among Youth in Pakistan through Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) Based Approach

Zulfiqar

Asmi

Chandia

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure entrepreneurial readiness among youth in Pakistan, through TPB based approach.Design/Methodology/Approach: The data were collected from people who work in different fields like banking sector and education sector of Pakistan. In total 380 questionnaires were circulated among people through the online survey. The IBM Statistics SPSS 23.0 was used to perform statistical analysis. ISSN 2162-4860 2017 http://ber.macrothink.org 150 Findings: The research finds that entrepreneurial attitude, social norms and perceived behavioral control have significant positive effect on entrepreneurial readiness among youngsters. Moreover, research shows that entrepreneurial knowledge has significant positive impact on entrepreneurial attitude, social norm and perceived social norm Research Limitations: Research population is the main limitation in this research, small sample size was selected and results were compiled on the basis of this sample size. Business and Economic ResearchOriginality/value: In these existing economic crises of Pakistan, "Developing Entrepreneurs" is one of the important ways to boost financial growth. Youngsters always play an important role in the development of economy and have potential to become future entrepreneurs. Research to check readiness among youngsters to become entrepreneurs in Pakistan is limited. This research has added value in both theory and practice by identifying the factors that can develop students" intentions to become entrepreneurs.

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Education and Entrepreneurship Experiences From Secondary and University Education in Belgium

Cited by 99 publications

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The effects of entrepreneurship education

The effects of entrepreneurship education

Advancing Entrepreneurship in An Elementary School: A Case Study

Measuring Entrepreneurial Readiness among Youth in Pakistan through Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) Based Approach

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