Originally published as Education + Training, Volume 50, Issue 7
ISBN: 0040-0912
Edited by: Dr Ghulam Nabi, Dr Rick Holden
Despite increasing attention on graduate entrepreneurship, there remains a lack of research on entrepreneurial intentions and enterprise/ entrepreneurship education and training in varied and multiple contexts. This Special Issue includes research from a number of countries, including England, Ireland, Australia and the U.S.
Contents:
Graduate entrepreneurship: intentions, education and training
Ghulam Nabi, Rick Holden
The paper's purpose is to present an introduction to the special issue is that positions and explores some of issues and challenges in the field of graduate entrepreneurship.
An examination of tertiary students' desire to found an enterprise
Naomi Birdthistle
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the paper aims to identify and explain the behaviour and intentions of students in their decision to start entrepreneurial activities and establish an enterprise. Second, the paper aims to identify whether students in tertiary level institutions in Ireland display the personality traits of an entrepreneur, which are necessary to found an enterprise.
Examining the entrepreneurial attitudes of US business students
Michael L. Harris, Shanan G. Gibson
This paper aims to examine the entrepreneurial attitudes of undergraduate students enrolled in the Small Business Institute® (SBI) program at multiple universities in the USA. Research has encouraged a continuous study and refinement of the entrepreneurial profile, particularly for young adults. Past studies have linked certain personality constructs and entrepreneurship, and shown a connection between entrepreneurial intentions and past business experience.
The new generation: characteristics and motivations of BME graduate entrepreneurs
Javed G. Hussain, Jonathan M. Scott, Paul D. Hannon
The purpose of this paper is to profile the characteristics and entrepreneurial motivations of graduate entrepreneurs from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
Student attitudes towards enterprise education in Poland: a positive impact
Paul Jones, Amanda Jones, Gary Packham, Christopher Miller
This paper aims to appraise the delivery of an enterprise education course to a cohort of Polish students evaluating its impact in encouraging entrepreneurial activity. The Polish economy continues its expansion with adoption of free market economies post communism. To encourage this growth, entrepreneurial activity must be encouraged within the next generation of entrepreneurs namely the student community.
Embedding enterprise in science and engineering departments
Robert D. Handscombe, Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, Eann A. Patterson
With the unbridled demand for entrepreneurship in higher education, the purpose of this paper is to identify how pedagogy can inhibit students in making the transition to graduate entrepreneurship. Along the way, the concept of what and who is a graduate entrepreneur is challenged.
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