Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to understand how universities develop and support student entrepreneurship. We did a preliminary Systematic Literature Review (SRL) on scientific articles regarding student entrepreneurship published during the last twenty years. Our findings emphasize three main research areas, emerging from a cluster analysis: (i) student entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention; (ii) university support for entrepreneurship; (iii) entrepreneurship education and learning. Particularly, our study points out that the new paradigm of the entrepreneurial university overcame the classical university model through the introduction of many innovations to foster student entrepreneurship. This paper provides an SLR on university role in fostering student entrepreneurship and it is useful for the academic and professional community. Additionally, it is original because it highlights the future directions of entrepreneurship and the main innovations adopted by universities to help students in the development of entrepreneurial initiatives.
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Our paper aims at answering the following research question (RQ): “What is the state of the art of student entrepreneurship into business, management and accounting fields of study?”
We applied a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) (Tranfield et al 2003; Kraus et al 2020; Secundo et al 2020) and our search query was entered into the Scopus database, allowing us to collect 52 scientific articles published from 2001
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Students need to “learn to identify and solve problems, work in teams, calibrate risks, and effectively communicate with others in very different domains, such as with investors It helps them innovate, inventing and implementing solutions to problems. The development of new technologies has significantly increased (Schimperna et al 2020; Lombardi et al 2021a), stimulating technological entrepreneurship in universities through start-up creation, university-industry partnerships, licensing, and patenting (Grimaldi et al 2011). This led to the implementation of mechanisms to support start-ups by both alumni and current students (Wright and Mustar 2019). Our findings aim at defining the state-of-the-art in university role in fostering student entrepreneurship, proposing issues for academics and practitioners
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