The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education: Introducing the Entrepreneurship Education Project

Abstract

The Entrepreneurship Education Project (http://www.trepeducation.com) is a global, longitudinal research initiative through which university students offer entrepreneurship educators and researchers data‐driven insights into the impact of entrepreneurial education on (1) both the motivational processes underlying students' road to entrepreneurship and through the entrepreneurial process and (2) the process of identity transformation from student to entrepreneur. Rooted in Social Cognitive Career Theory, the Entrepreneurship Education Project data initiative is the largest, most comprehensive study of students across the globe. Phase I data consist of over 18,000 student responses, spanning over 70 countries and 400 universities. This paper presents an overview of the data, study justification, and conceptual scheme. Initial studies provide results indicating the study measures met contemporary standards or reliability, exceed the average sample sizes of top‐tier entrepreneurship journals, and present some very interesting questions to be explored in future research.

Entrepreneurial intentions of South African rural university students: A test of the theory of planned behaviour

“…Schwarz et al (2009) found that the intention to start a business is influenced by students' attitudes towards entrepreneurship, change, money and their perceptions regarding the university support for entrepreneurship while Saeed, Yousafzai, Yani-De-Soriano and Muffatto, (2013) reported the impact of self-realisation, role and recognition on entrepreneurial intentions. Vanevenhoven and Liguori (2013) found that entrepreneurial outcome expectations that include financial rewards, independence/autonomy, personal rewards and family security are significantly related to entrepreneurial intentions and self-efficacy. This means that individuals are more likely to have strong intentions of starting a business and belief that they are personally capable of doing so when the act would result in the achievement of these entrepreneurial outcomes.…”

The Moderating Role of National Culture in the Relationship Between University Entrepreneurship Offerings and Student Start-Up Activity: An Embeddedness Perspective

“…The scope of entrepreneurship programs at universities has grown dramatically over the past quarter century (Morris, Kuratko, and Cornwall 2013). Prior studies have shown that entrepreneurship programs raise the level of entrepreneurial interest among students (Peterman and Kennedy 2003;Souitaris, Zerbinati, and Al-Laham 2007;Vanevenhoven and Ligouri 2013).…”

A framework for a teaching toolkit in entrepreneurship education

“…Based on the methods of other impact studies (e.g., Kolvereid and Moen, 1997;Wilson et al, 2007;Liao and Gartner, 2008;Olomi and Sinyamule, 2009;Kružić and Bulog, 2010), a structured sampling procedure with an adequate sample size for an ex ante/ex post design represents a further essential requirement for evaluating entrepreneurial narratives as an adequate teaching tool (Lorz et al 2013). In addition, because most EE studies are carried out at higher educational levels (e.g., Vanevenhoven and Liguori, 2013;Volery et al, 2013;Zhang et al, 2014), a focus on currently under-researched target groups such as students of vocational schools (Lorz et al, 2013) will enrich the academic discussion.…”