Role Of Entrepreneurship Education Research Articles

Entrepreneurial intention among engineering students: The role of entrepreneurship education

Partly due to the current crisis and its high unemployment rates, the labor market increasingly requires multidisciplinary engineers with additional skills to their own. Engineering education therefore faces new challenges and these include equipping engineers with greater entrepreneurship. Although entrepreneurship education has consequently been integrated into the new engineering degrees, is this enough to boost entrepreneurship among engineers and on what does their level of entrepreneurship depend?This research work aims to analyze the impact of entrepreneurial motivations on entrepreneurial intentions among future engineers and identify the role than entrepreneurship education plays in the development of the engineers’ entrepreneurship. The results indicate that the need for independence is the key factor in the entrepreneurial intent of future engineers and confirm the positive contribution that entrepreneurship education has on their entrepreneurial intentions. Finally, recommendations are offered which could help the various agents involved increase the effectiveness of actions aimed at promoting firm creation in this area.

The role of entrepreneurship education in shaping entrepreneurial action of disabled students in Nigeria

This study adopted a cross sectional descriptive research design to examine the role of entrepreneurship education in shaping entrepreneurial action (EA) of disabled students of the Nigerian tertiary institutions. Also, an analytical survey with mixed methods and triangulation focus constituted the study's research design. A sample size of 286 disabled students was determined using Krejcie and Morgan sample size selection model. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, zero-order correlation and hierarchical regression. The findings revealed that pedagogy, course content and entrepreneurship education are significant predictors of EA. Entrepreneurship education that exposes students to life applicable issues is capable of boosting their confidence/capacity to risk into venture start-up. Second, the more lecturers' characteristics such as inspiring students, method of teaching, being approachable and displaying enthusiasm are applied in the teaching of entrepreneurship the better the EA of the students. This study indicates a number of implications for the tertiary institutions and policy-makers. Specifically, entrepreneurship education, pedagogy and course content make a significant contribution to EA for disabled students. This is a critical factor that tertiary institutions in Nigeria should consider in transmitting entrepreneurship knowledge to students. Policy-makers and other stakeholders need to develop keen interest in designing entrepreneurship curriculum to cater/accommodate the specific needs of students with disabilities.Originality/value: This study is the first in Nigeria (Africa) to test empirically the relationship between pedagogy, course content, entrepreneurship education and EA among tertiary institutions’ disabled students.

Entrepreneurship education: a vital instrument for youth empowerment, industrial development and consolidation of national integration in Nigeria

The concern of this paper is to explore Entrepreneurship Education (EE) as one of the vital tools for youth empowerment, industrial development and consolidation of national integration in Nigeria. To achieve this feat, the paper takes its roots from the role of EE in youth empowerment programmes, national integration and some integrative structures since 1960, how national integration, industrial development and youth empowerment became an issue in Nigeria, the role of entrepreneurship education in youth empowerment, industrial development and national integration, challenges of EE and its implication on youth empowerment, industrial development and national integration, the benefits of youth-empowerment in Nigeria and some challenges in the delivery of EE for youth empowerment and industrial development. To surmount these challenges, the paper examines the need for a synergy and the relevant agencies to be collaborated in the EE programme. In addition, there is the proposed strategy for effective implementation. Then the paper concludes and recommends that through EE, the nation’s quest for youth empowerment, industrial development and the consolidation of national integration could be realized in records time. Keywords: Entrepreneurship Education, Industrial Development, Youth Empowerment, National Integration and Nigeria

Specialized entrepreneurship education: does it really matter? Fresh evidence from Pakistan

PurposeThere is a long-standing debate on whether the entrepreneurship education program (EEP) of university graduates can promote entrepreneurship intention and behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to use the theory of planned behaviour as a conceptual framework and compare the differences in entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control and intentions among students who participated in entrepreneurship education with a control group of Master of Business Administration (MBA) students in Pakistan. The study further examines what drives intentions between the two groups.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using a questionnaire survey from 348 entrepreneurship students and 329 MBAs in their final year (both groups did a total of four years’ tertiary study). One-way analysis of variance test and regression analysis were used to examine the differences and the antecedents of entrepreneurship intention between the two groups.FindingsMBAs have higher entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) than EEP students and the EIs are statistically significant. Nevertheless, the authors did not find any differences in attitude, perceived control behaviour and subjective norms towards entrepreneurship in both the groups. The entrepreneurship intentions of the MBA students are more influenced by social pressure as opposed to EEP students who are influenced by perceived control behaviours.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, although the study introduced a control group, comparisons were based only on EIs and their antecedents in participants’ final year of study. This cross-sectional design provides no information about how much intentions and antecedents changed over time. A longitudinal study would provide information about such changes. Second, the groups in the study were matched in terms of gender, age distribution, family background, years of study and presumed disposition towards running their business. It would be useful if future comparative and longitudinal research measured these individual factors and their effects.Practical implicationsEducational activities render the starting of a business desirable and feasible by changing the attitudes and intentions. Nevertheless, various exposures to the challenges of being an entrepreneur via the education programmes may lower their intention to be entrepreneurs. As such, entrepreneurial programmes should be designed with care.Social implicationsThe study provides some insights on improving EIs especially in understanding the antecedents that are important for nations, such as Pakistan which has high unemployment and widespread poverty.Originality/valueThis study provides fresh evidence on the role of entrepreneurship education by comparing EIs and the cognitive antecedents of intentions of the two groups – entrepreneurship as well as MBA students.

In quest of legitimacy: The theoretical and methodological foundations of entrepreneurship education research

This editorial discusses contemporary entrepreneurship education research and identifies the manner in which the three articles comprising this special issue contribute to advancing the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field. In so doing we seek to describe how and why entrepreneurship education research may struggle for legitimacy along with the complexities of working in this field. This special issue raises questions about entrepreneurship education research and, through the featured articles provides some responses. This special issue itself, however, is presented as part of an ongoing discussion about the nature and role of entrepreneurship education more widely and is intended to provoke further critical engagement and stimulate theoretical and methodological development.

Financial Education as Significant Challenge for High School in Poland for the Upcoming Years

The article presents the most important reasons for the low level of the financial and economic competences of high school students. The analysis in this area is based on the research conducted by the National Bank of Poland in November 2014. The aim of this article is to draw attention to the low status of the school subject „introduction to entrepreneurship” which is taught in the secondary school. For this reason the majority of young people lack the basic knowledge in terms of finance and economy. The GFC (global financial crisis) experience has shown that the level of financial liabilities is disproportionate to the possibility of their repayment. One of the reason for this behaviour is the low level of financial education among the young. Therefore, the role of entrepreneurship education at the high school stage is invaluable and determines future attitudes toward economic activity.

The Role of Entrepreneurship Education on Internationalization Intention. A Case Study from Izmir-TURKEY

Acting in a domestic market can be risky for new ventures in developing countries because of vulnerable economic and politic conditions. From the beginning of establishment, focusing on international markets can prevent local market risks which new entrepreneurs will probably encounter. Internationalization, entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship are the main topics which scholars given more attention in the world. In this study, entrepreneurship education and it’s effects on generating internationalization intention were evaluated by in depth interviews. Findings has shown that type of the institute, course content, classmates, qualification and background of the lecturer, plays important role on initiation of starting international business

Unravelling the conundrum of entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial characteristics

Orientation: Against the backdrop of recent youth unemployment dynamics, scholars have increasingly focused their attention on youth entrepreneurial intentions and their associated factors, such as entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial characteristics.Research purpose: This article investigated the individual and combined effect of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial characteristics on youth entrepreneurial intentions.Motivation for the study: Notwithstanding the popularity of entrepreneurship education, its impact on learners’ entrepreneurial intentions is still not clearly established in the literature. Moreover, whilst there is a growing consensus about the influence of certain entrepreneurial characteristics on entrepreneurial intentions, rarely has the role of entrepreneurship education in this relationship been examined.Research design, approach and method: Data for the analysis came from a cross-sectional survey of secondary students enrolled in Junior Achievement South Africa (JASA)’s Mini Enterprise Programme and a control group of secondary students. The data-collection instrument was a questionnaire compiled from previously validated statements, which was validly completed by 827 respondents.Main findings: Hierarchical logistic regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial characteristics per se do not influence entrepreneurial intentions positively. However, once interaction effects were introduced, entrepreneurship education moderated the influence of need for achievement and family support on entrepreneurial intentions in a positive direction.Practical/managerial implications: Entrepreneurship-education-and-training institutions such as JASA should selectively screen their candidates to ensure that they also possess need for achievement and support from their close family. Contribution/value add: This is the first study investigating both the individual and combined effect of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial characteristics on secondary students’ entrepreneurial intentions.

Interview with a Korean Entrepreneur: Dr., CEO, Daeje Chin

Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy (AJIP) would like to introduce an interview section on innovations, innovators, and entrepreneurs if possible in every issue. The interviews introduced will be selected not based on a journalistic view, but rather by its theoretical or practical implications. This issue will introduce an entrepreneur who was a key engineer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and CEO of Samsung Electronics, in addition to being Minister of ICT in Korean government. Currently, he is CEO of an investment company. His success was tied to success of semiconductors at Samsung Electronics, which became world leader, leading some to even call him the god of semiconductors. This interview resurrects debates on mode 2 society and role of education in entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship Skills Acquisition and the Benefits amongst the Undergraduate Students in Nigeria

There is this colonial mentality among the first generation graduates in Nigeria where there has been a craze for white collar office work alone. In recent times, the Nigeria graduates have faced a lot of frustrations from lack of achieving the white collar job so to speak. This paper is advocating the adoption of re-positioning the economic development and entrepreneurial drive for job creation, wealth creation and global competitiveness of Nigeria youths and graduates. The basic truce of this paper is to enhance a match between theory and practice as facilitated by research and development centers in the Nigerian universities to serve as a technology laboratory and incubate entrepreneurship skills. The entrepreneurship education as a compulsory course in some Nigerian university system is actually viewed as a means to empower the youths through entrepreneurship education. The paper critically looked at the role of entrepreneurship education. The purpose is to equip the individual and create the mindset to undertake the risk of venturing into applying the knowledge and skills gotten from school. Other issues like the provision of individuals with enough training to enable creativity and innovation relevant to skill acquisition to encourage self-employment and self-reliant were x-rayed. Some techniques like industrial training exercise, workshop and seminar, excursion as a vehicle in the youth empowerment and eradication of poverty and extreme hardship were mentioned. Challenges like inadequate funding, lack of training personnel and men availability of equipment were identified as issues facing entrepreneurship education. Recommendations like entrepreneurial base curriculum at all levels of education, provision of enabling environment for entrepreneurial development required for economic advancement and youth empowerment should be the key focus in Nigeria for youths and graduates from various tertiary schools as applicable.

Perceived Effective Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Role of the Perception of University Support and Perceived Creativity Disposition

In order to increase our understanding of the factors that underlie entrepreneurial intention formation, this article investigates the roles of individual creativity disposition and the perception of university support. The study considers how the personal characteristic may mediate students’ perception of effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. The study also aims to determine the perception of university support that could moderate the relationship between perception of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and creativity disposition. Using a survey of 158 university students and employing Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with AMOS version 22, the results show that perceived creativity disposition facilitate our understanding on the entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention relationship. However, in our analysis, university support does not invigorate the role of entrepreneurship education in enhancing perceived creativity disposition. Implications for research and practice are provided.

Impact of Entrepreneurial Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Pakistani Students

Why an individual prefer to become an entrepreneur and what factor motivated his intentions for becoming an entrepreneur is considered important question in entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurial education is considered an important variable which effect on entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research results on entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention yielded mixed results. To investigate further this question from developing countries perspective, this paper looks at the role of entrepreneurial education in developing the entrepreneurial intentions for becoming entrepreneur. The sample for this study composed of final year business students from Pakistan. The result of this study supports the entrepreneurial intentions model based on the theory of planned behavior. The results further suggested significant influence of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intentions of the students. Moreover, this study results also showed that theoretical knowledge of entrepreneurship (know-what) and knowledge of social network development (know-who) component are vital for imparting entrepreneurial education.

National Economic Empowernment Development Strategy (NEEDS) as a Panacea for Employment Creation and Self Employment and Self Reliant

This study assessed the ratings of lecturers in universities in Edo State on the role of entrepreneurship education in the realizations of NEEDS. Two research questions were formulated to guide the study. The population consisted of two hundred and sixty-four academic staff members from faculty of education and management of University of Benin and Ambrose Alli University. The survey research design was employed for the study. The instrument used was validated by three experts. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation coefficient was used to compute reliability of the instrument which yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.72. There was no sampling as the entire population was used for the study while two hundred and thirty six respondents were used for data analysis. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Data collected were analysed using the descriptive statistics. From the results of the analysis of data it was discovered that entrepreneurship education roles in meeting NEEDS goals in Edo State are creation of employment and self employment & self reliant. Consequently, it was recommended among other things that a robust micro finance scheme be given top priority by government at all levels of governance. The development of entrepreneurship should be a major option for employment generation and income growth in Edo State. Edo State government should provide robust legislation towards encouragement and development of entrepreneurship education by commercial banks. Finally recommendations were made for further studies. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2015.v5n2p61

The Role of Entrepreneurship Education in Forming Students’ Entrepreneurial Attitudes

In this study, we are focusing to describe the role of entrepreneurship education informing students’ entrepreneurial attitudes through the development of Entrepreneurship Center in Indonesia Higher Education Institutions. Focus of the study is to identify the determinant factors of entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions. In particular, the study investigates the Indonesian students’ view on the following entrepreneurial capital in terms of the importance to entrepreneurial success. It further examines the respondents’ self-assessment on their entrepreneurial qualities possession, their views on entrepreneurs. 118 students participated in the survey and the data were collected through self-administered questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed for their content, presented in the form of graphs and were given a simple statistical treatment. The results indicate that Indonesian students are aware of the competencies and the qualities strongly linked with entrepreneurial success. Results of the study contribute to Indonesia Higher Education institutions on understanding the attitudes of their students towards entrepreneurship and investigating both the role of entrepreneurial education and social norms in building attitudes that lead to entrepreneurial intentions.

Analysis of Characteristics and the Structure of the College Students' Entrepreneurial Quality

College students' entrepreneurship education, as education forms with the improvement of students' entrepreneurial quality as the core, is an integral part of the implementation of quality education of colleges and universities. To better play the role of entrepreneurship education and develop students' entrepreneurial quality, it needs to have a comprehensive understanding and awareness of entrepreneurial quality. This paper, on the basis of the summary of existing point of the entrepreneurial qualities, has proposed the structural model of college students entrepreneurial quality through questionnaire survey and other methods, and analyzed the weight of each index in the model in detail, attempting to be helpful for the development of future entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. Increasingly serious problem of university students' employment promotes higher education in talent training mode to make a new attempt and exploration to cultivate students' entrepreneurial quality concerned. so this article analyzes the structure of the entrepreneurship quality for college students.

The Role of Entrepreneurship Education on Job Creation among Youths in Nigeria

The progress of a nation is a function of the level of the resourcefulness of the people which to a great extent, relates to the level of quality of the training and purposeful development of education in that nation. Such progress or development could only occur when an individual in the society is gainfully employed and per capital income is enhanced. This could only be possible when government educational policies are geared towards a functional education that can lead to job creation and also self reliance. Entrepreneurship education is a means through which government could attain such development in the society. Therefore, this paper examines how the role of entrepreneurship education and how it could help in job creation in Nigeria. The challenges of quality entrepreneurship education were also discussed. Finally, the paper advanced some suggestions on how to overcome the challenges so as to reduce unemployment and enhances job creation in Nigeria.

Investigation on entrepreneurial cognitive level of students in Southern Medical University and entrepreneurship education

Objective To explore influencing factors of the individual entrepreneurship from as- pects of entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial cognition and entrepreneurship education. Methods Questionnaire of entrepreneurial cognition was conducted for 1860 students in Southern Medical Universi- ty. SPSS was used to analyze the data. Results （1）Entrepreneurship intention among university students were strong. （2）There was a lack of awareness of college students entrepreneurship policy among college students. （3）Students never receiving entrepreneurship education accounted for 65%, but 89% students held that entrepreneurial education courses was necessary. Conclusions Due to arduous professional tasks, medical students have compelling and demanding need for personalized entreprenenrship educa- tion. Initiative participation of library in integrating of entrepreneurship education information by using advantageous resources plays a important role in entrepreneurship education. Key words: Medical colleges and universities; Entrepreneurship education

The role of entrepreneurship education as a predictor of university students’ entrepreneurial intention

Using Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior and Shapero’s entrepreneurial event model as well as entrepreneurial cognition theory, we attempt to identify the relationship between entrepreneurship education, prior entrepreneurial exposure, perceived desirability and feasibility, and entrepreneurial intentions (EI) for university students. The data were collected from a survey of ten universities; we received 494 effective responses. We used probit estimation to show that perceived desirability significantly impacts EI whereas there is no significant impact from perceived feasibility. There is a significant negative impact from exposure (which is surprising) and a significant positive impact from entrepreneurship education. Males and people from technological universities and/or backgrounds have higher EI than females and people from other universities and backgrounds. There are also significant positive interactive effects by gender, university type, and study major on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and EI.

The Role of Entrepreneurship Education in Developing Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

This study, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), assesses the impact of entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) on entrepreneurial intentions of 320 students following entrepreneurship courses at six Iranian universities. Data were collected by a questionnaire before and after completing EEPs. Result indicated that EEPs significantly influence perceived behavioral control and subjective norms. However, no support was found for the effects of EEPs on attitudes toward entrepreneurship and intention. Findings suggest that the TPB could be considered to provide a useful framework to analyze how EEP might influence students’ entrepreneurial intentions.

Promoting sustainable development: The role of entrepreneurship education

A new educational approach to sustainable development is emerging in the entrepreneurship literature. However, because business schools encourage a ‘profit-first mentality’, critics question their ability to deliver sustainability-related education programmes. This article adapts the theory of planned behaviour to examine attitudes to an entrepreneurial form of sustainability education. The relationship between nascent entrepreneurs’ intentions to exploit learning and the extent of a profit-first mentality is examined. The study utilises data from 257 nascent entrepreneurs participating in a business start-up programme. Structural equation modelling is used to test a series of hypotheses which examine links between sustainability education and nascent entrepreneurs’ attitudes. The results indicate a strong relationship between perception of learning benefits and intentions of nascent entrepreneurs to exploit those benefits. Although a profit-first mentality is negatively related to perceptions of benefit, learning itself is not affected. The results have implications for research, policy and the practice of entrepreneurship education.