Entrepreneurship Education - A Compendium of Related Issues

Does Entrepreneurship Education Really Work? A Review and Methodological Critique of the Empirical Literature on the Effects of University-Based Entrepreneurship Education

“…Unfortunately, although the amount of research on E‐ed has grown over the years, most of the reviews of studies in this area highlight concerns about the adequacy of this research. Various broad reviews of the empirical literature on E‐ed interventions (Fayolle ; Lee and Wong ; Vesper and Gartner ; and Gorman, Hanlon and King —which built upon Dainow's 1974–1984 survey of the E‐ed literature and Block and Stumpf's 1992 review) express similar concerns. In its special issue on entrepreneurship education The Academy of Management Learning and Education (Honig ) issued a call for more rigorous research to help forge the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical links among the many forms of E‐ed (Greene, Katz and Johannisson ).…”

Bounded Rationality and the Supply Side of Entrepreneurship: Evaluating Technology Entrepreneurship Education for Economic Impact

“…While high-tech entrepreneurship has always been a priority of several University departmental programs, it has within the past year become a prominent focus of the university. differ significantly from the four conventional E-ed approaches--war stories, case study, business planning, and generic action/role playing--identified by Lee et al, 2006. These latter two programs have a technology focus, although they differ significantly in their respective approaches to technology-push/ market-pull. While the undergraduate engineers identify customer needs and invent/design/build a product accordingly, the graduate students are given a technology (often a patent) and they identify optimal technology-product-market commercialization opportunities.…”

“…Other broad reviews of the empirical literature on E-ed interventions (Lee et al, 2006;Fayolle, 2005;and Gorman, Hanlon & King 1997--which built upon Dainow's 1974 survey of the E-ed literature and Block and Stumpf's 1992 review) seem to paint a similar picture. With respect to university E-ed in particular, Vesper and Gartner's (1997) review concluded that universities typically evaluate their entrepreneurship education efforts by monitoring programmatic variables like course offerings, student enrollment, faculty publications, financial commitment, faculty qualifications, economic impact, administrative support, popularity, university-wide impacts, anecdotes of alumni exploits, innovations, startups, and outreach to scholars.…”

Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum and Framework for Its Implementation in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria: Implication for Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset of Students

“…Henderson (2007) concludes that entrepreneurship education will spur innovative ideas and add value through the commercialization of new products, the creation of new jobs, and the building of new firms. Entrepreneurship education is a catalyst for economic development and job creation in societies and it involves rebranding the education culture to the end of guaranteeing a comprehensive educational system reengineering arising from the obvious deficiencies of the existing educational system (Lee and Wong, 2005). In other words, entrepreneurship education provides a platform for graduates to transform opportunities to business ventures and to manage those ventures to become a medium for job creation for themselves and others which is a very vital aspect of economic development.…”