The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Education: Development, Trends, and Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 577-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Kuratko
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Similar Increase ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World

Entrepreneurship has emerged over the last two decades as arguably the most potent economic force the world has ever experienced. With that expansion has come a similar increase in the field of entrepreneurship education. The recent growth and development in the curricula and programs devoted to entrepreneurship and new–venture creation have been remarkable. The number of colleges and universities that offer courses related to entrepreneurship has grown from a handful in the 1970s to over 1,600 in 2005. In the midst of this huge expansion remains the challenge of complete academic legitimacy for entrepreneurship. While it can be argued that some legitimacy has been attained in the current state of entrepreneurship education, there are critical challenges that lie ahead. This article focuses on the trends and challenges in entrepreneurship education for the 21st century.

scholarly journals Locating a New Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program, a framework for a University Campus

10.28945/4385 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 075-087
Author(s):  
Douglas H Carter
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Current Status ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Corporate Innovation ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

Entrepreneurship has emerged over the last three decades as arguable the most potent economic force the world has ever experienced. This economic expansion has paralleled rapid growth in the field of entrepreneurship education. Recent developments in curricula and programs devoted to entrepreneurship, new venture creation and corporate innovation have been remarkable. The number of colleges and universities that offer courses related to entrepreneurship has grown from a handful 35 years ago to over 3000 today. In the midst of this expansion lies the challenge of establishing and sustaining entrepreneurship programs in universities across the globe. (Morris, Kuratko & Cornwall, 2013) The literature review will help inform us of the current status of entrepreneurship programs on university campuses and provide us with some indication of any changes in the idea of where to place a new program.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship as the Unsung Hero during the Current COVID-19 Economic Crisis: Australian Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Maritz ◽  
Aron Perenyi ◽  
Gerrit de Waal ◽  
Christoph Buck
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
Multidimensional Effects

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only had a significant and catastrophic effect on business and economies globally, but has identified the external and internal enablement of new venture creation. This paper aims to provide entrepreneurship insights, implementations and dynamics to demonstrate the role of entrepreneurship in times of such adversity within an Australian context. We provide emergent enquiry narratives from leading Australian scholars, identifying entrepreneurial initiatives as a catalyst to new venture creation and growth. Narratives include insights associated with the entrepreneurial mindset, the multidimensional effects of resilience and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship enablers and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Opportunities for further research are identified, particularly regarding context and empirical outcomes. We postulate that entrepreneurship may well be the unsung hero during the current COVID-19 economic crisis.

scholarly journals Leveraging Effectual Means through Business Plan Competition Participation

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayleigh Watson ◽  
Pauric McGowan ◽  
Paul Smith
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
New Venture ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Regional University ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Viable Business

This paper explores whether the business plan competition (BPC), as a classically causational mechanism for extracurricular entrepreneurship education, can facilitate the development of the means that underpin an effectual approach to new venture creation. In-depth, open-ended qualitative interviews were conducted with participants in a regional university-based extracurricular BPC before, immediately after and six months after the competition. The BPC was found to facilitate the means that could be used to adopt an effectual approach. The competition afforded valuable networking opportunities and collaborative contacts with regard to ‘who they know’; and it enhanced ‘what they know’ through enabling the acquisition, development and application of key competencies. Participants were able to gain and project a confident sense of ‘who they are’ in terms of their venture, changing their perception of the venture from a student project to a credible and viable business prospect. There were strong indications that these acquired means endured in the six months following participation. The implication is that education in which a business plan is dominant need not automatically impede the promotion of an effectual approach.

Attitudes of Higher Education Students to New Venture Creation

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurora A.C. Teixeira ◽  
Todd Davey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
New Venture ◽  
High Tech ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behaviour

Higher education institutions (HEIs) play an important role in the generation of high-tech ‘entrepreneurial capacity’. As entrepreneurship education gives greater attention to the creation of new ventures, there is an urgent need for a better understanding of the attitudes of students, potentially the entrepreneurs of the future. Logit estimates using 4,413 responses from students enrolled in Portuguese HEIs show that students who have business-related competences and live in an environment that fosters and encourages entrepreneurship have a stronger desire to become entrepreneurs. This supports the contention that entrepreneurship is a process that can be learned and that HE establishments, teachers and other institutions and individuals are in a position to encourage entrepreneurial behaviour.

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