Entrepreneurship education and firm creation

Breznitz, Shiri M.; Zhang, Qiantao

doi:10.1080/00343404.2021.1878127

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“…Furthermore, the human capital models based on Becker's theory of human capital [42] adapted by entrepreneurship researchers [22,[43][44][45][46][47] are also appropriate for analysing the influence of entrepreneurship education on students' entrepreneurial intentions. Entrepreneurial knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurial education have been identified as important determinants for entrepreneurial success, based on the assumption that individuals with higher levels of knowledge, skills, education, and experience can achieve better results than those with lower levels [23,28,43,46,56]. Two additional variables of students' entrepreneurial intentions regarding human capital are widely discussed: the work experience and the role models [57,58].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions among Romanian Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

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In the context of the intensely debated topic of the impact of entrepreneurship education on students’ entrepreneurial intentions, the current paper presents findings of the entrepreneurial intentions of a group of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers from different fields of study enrolled in the SmartDoct project—an entrepreneurship education project co-financed through the European Social Fund and implemented by the University of Oradea, Romania, between 2019 and 2022. Our paper investigates individual-level determinants of the intention to become an entrepreneur, grounding in the social-cognitive, planned behaviour, and human capital theories. Using content analysis of semi-structured interviews, the paper offers insights into the narratives related to the entrepreneurial intentions of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, including relevant suggestions regarding the impact of gender, field of study, perceived influence of behavioural control, social norms concerning social support, and of the role models. Our results document the capacity of entrepreneurial programmes to encourage business initiation via stimulating entrepreneurial self-efficacy, the importance of perceived behavioural control on explaining entrepreneurial intention, and the value of social support and of role models, as well as the salience of the gender and field of study in explaining the net effect of entrepreneurial training in the case of students enrolled in advanced research programmes.

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“…The indicators measuring the impact of entrepreneurship education are opportunity discovery, opportunity exploration, entrepreneurship, creativity capacity, social problem solving and entrepreneurship intention. 40 HEIs are contributors to local economic development in their immediate communities and graduates tend to start their businesses in the region they graduated. Entrepreneurship education can positively influence HEIs in the form of alumni retention and producing multi-skilled employable graduates.…”

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The Role of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions

Ncanywa

Dyantyi

2022

EHASS

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Entrepreneurship education affords people with skills that display the characteristics of risk-taking, being involved in making informed decisions, creativity and innovation. Entrepreneurship education can provide teaching approaches to changing problems into business opportunities to assist the university community in addressing graduate employability. In addition, it can provide post-COVID-19 pandemic solutions to their start-ups or existing businesses. The paper explores the role of entrepreneurship education in Higher Education Institutions by discussing the effective and sustainable teaching methods that can be used in entrepreneurship teaching, employing a qualitative thematic review methodology. The entrepreneurship ecosystem can be key when higher education institutions are engaged in the transformation process of offering entrepreneurship education to their community. This paper explores the following themes: entrepreneurial education needs in entrepreneurial institutions, stakeholders involved in the provision of entrepreneurship education, and a sustainable business model as a product of entrepreneurship education. The present paper recommends that universities adopt a participatory approach to teaching and learning entrepreneurship as this can play a crucial role in building their structures to be economically active. Furthermore, it addresses graduate unemployment; provides recovery strategies to reboot businesses in communities, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic; and how to position themselves as entrepreneurial institutions. Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, Sustainability, Transformation, Graduate unemployment

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“…The study of entrepreneurial intention is important for several authors (Breznitz & Zhang, 2022;Gartner, Shaver, Gatewood, & Katz, 1994), this study allows to understand the process of entrepreneurship, since it is the first step in the process of opportunities discovery, creation and exploration. It is important to realize that the decision to undertake a business is voluntary and conscious (Krueger et al, 2000), and since it is a planned decision one can predict and understand it through models of intention.…”

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“…This phenomenon started at the University of Southern California in the early 1970's and, in 2005, there were more than 2200 courses at over 1600 schools (Kuratko, 2005). However, despite this growth, the effectiveness of entrepreneurial education is still under assessment from several studies and it is subject to numerous constraints (Breznitz & Zhang, 2022;Fayolle & Liñán, 2014). Entrepreneurship education owes more to craft than science, which ends up resulting in a lack of academic credibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

Youth Entrepreneurship Among Higher Education Students – A Qualitative Research of Entrepreneurial Intention and Education

Silva

Braga

Ferreira

et al. 2022

Naše Gospodarstvo/Our Economy

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The area of entrepreneurship education is developing rapidly, potentially conveying positive effects to business education, innovation and economies. Our paper seeks to analyse the entrepreneurial intention of a group of higher education students, and the data includes 29 interviews, administered to students of Portuguese higher education institutions. The results obtained allowed to confirm some of the aspects described in the literature, although a few divergences were also found. It was also possible to clarify some of the theories associated with barriers to entrepreneurship. The main limitations are related with the sample size, opening space for future research with larger samples. The most important implications relate to the identified need for very specific topics in entrepreneurship education. However, the key contribution of the paper also lies in its qualitative research approach.

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Entrepreneurship education and firm creation

Cited by 28 publications

References 46 publications

Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions among Romanian Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions among Romanian Doctoral Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

The Role of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions

Youth Entrepreneurship Among Higher Education Students – A Qualitative Research of Entrepreneurial Intention and Education

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