Abstract
The contribution of entrepreneurship at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels is remarkable. There are many entrepreneurship development programs (EDP) initiatives proposed by policymakers around the world to ensure the growth of entrepreneurs. While EDP is necessary to improve entrepreneur capabilities, however studies on EDP evaluation literacy remain limited. This study aims to fill the gap by investigating EDP evaluation literacy by using a systematic literature review (SLR). This study carried out a bibliometric analysis on a Scopus database in the last three decades, from 1989 to 2021 with all the manuscripts were written in English. The results show that most of the literature on EDP evaluation-related themes is mainly focused on program evaluation, characteristics, challenges, stakeholders, and context, with program evaluation and characteristics are considered as the most significant issues of EDP evaluation. Interestingly, this study also reveals that few manuscripts review the process of EDP as the success criterion of EDP implementation.
Highlights
Entrepreneurship development programs (EDP) are activities to increase knowledge and creativity
We have investigated 366 papers from the Scopus database that were published from 1989 to 2021 that used the keywords “entrepreneur,” “develop,” “evaluate,” “education,” and “training.” The usage of Scopus as the primary database in the study is because this reputable international database is utilized by academicians worldwide
We have investigated 366 EDP manuscript related and explored several issues such as program evaluation, characteristics, challenges, stakeholders, and context, with program evaluation and characteristics
Summary
Entrepreneurship development programs (EDP) are activities (or a package of training and counseling designed) to increase knowledge and creativity. The purposes of EDP are to improve skills, knowledge, and attitudes of targeted individuals and community (Fayolle et al, 2016; Gedeon, 2017; Klingler-vidra et al, 2019), to start a new business, and to add new jobs (Decker et al, 2014; Jeng & Hung, 2019), to provide an alternatives sources of income (Dvouletý, 2017; Terjesen et al, 2016), and to initiate economic growth (Martínez et al, 2018; Song & Winkler, 2014; Stoica & Roman, 2020). EDP offered many benefits to the entrepreneurial community. It increases the economic contribution, gives alternative solutions to youth unemployment issues, creates social impact, etc. It increases the economic contribution, gives alternative solutions to youth unemployment issues, creates social impact, etc. (Nabi et al, 2017; Pettersson et al, 2017; Valerio et al, 2014)
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