The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education: An Evaluation of the Berger Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Arizona, 1985-1999

Author(s):  
Alberta Charney ◽  
Gary D. Libecap
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mustapha Bachiri

<p>In recent decades, entrepreneurship has become a major economic and social phenomenon, a subject of research and a new field of education. While entrepreneurship is not a new concept, it regained importance particularly in scientific research. Entrepreneurship is seen as a vector for innovation and economic efficiency but also as a powerful job creator. Along with the evolution of entrepreneurship, there is a growing interest in the development of training programs to encourage entrepreneurship in universities. The challenge remains to find a consensus on the content to be taught and the type of learning to guide student behavior. Several empirical studies indicate that education can foster entrepreneurship. Yet the impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial values remains largely unexplored.</p><p>In this study, we used the theory of planned behavior to assess the impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial intentions in Moroccan universities, particularly the University of Rabat (Mohammed V University).</p>


Impact! ◽  
1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit L. Verschuur

After all the hoopla associated with Jupiter’s publicity stunt died down, planetary scientists got down to the business of analyzing their data. Simulations of the aftermath of a comet or asteroid impact had been available for years and in July 1994 many of the predictions were confirmed, albeit some more dramatically than expected. The timing of the event was almost as if to remind us to take more seriously what we have been thinking and talking about for some time. Putting aside for a moment the implications for life on earth had something similar happened here, let’s look at some of the things that were learned. Argument continues as to what actually hit Jupiter, a comet or asteroid. When the Space Telescope Science Institute sent out a press release on September 29, 1994, entitled “Hubble Observations Shed New Light on Jupiter Collision,” we were led to expect an answer. The introduction gave us further hope: “Was it a comet or an asteroid?” But the institute didn’t have the answer. Its observations slightly favored a cometary origin, but the asteroid possibility still could not be ruled out. Comets are mostly icy, or so we like to think, and asteroids are mostly rocky or metallic, or so we like to think. When you really get down to it, this business of the difference between comets and asteroids has launched a new cottage industry within astronomical circles. A more recent hint that a comet was involved came from observations made from on board the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, an airplane that carries a beautiful infrared telescope high above most of the water vapor in the atmosphere where it can then see more clearly. Ann Sprague and Donald Huntern from the University of Arizona and their colleagues found evidence for water minutes after two of the fragments smashed into Jupiter. The water signature, a spectral line, indicated it was at a temperature of 500 kelvins (degrees above absolute zero, or about 230 Celcius), much hotter than Jupiter’s usual 200 kelvins (-73 Celcius). Although they could not rule out that the water originated deep in Jupiter’s clouds, the way it came and went over a period of 20 minutes suggested that it was liberated by the impact and was part of a cometlike object.


1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Shettel-Neuber ◽  
Joseph O'Reilly

Numerous studies have considered the possibility of consistent differences in the percentages of left- and right-handers in verbal and visuospatial career fields and academic disciplines. Conflicting results have supported hypotheses suggesting more left-handers in visuospatial fields, fewer left-handers in visuospatial fields, and no differences between the percentages of left- and right-handers in visuospatial and verbal fields. The present study sought to examine further the possibility of differential distributions of left-and right-handers in verbal and visuospatial fields by considering hand preferences of 109 faculty members in the architecture college, art department, law college, and psychology department at The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. No significant differences were found in reported handedness, hand position in writing, or familial handedness for the verbal and visuospatial groups. Results were discussed in relationship to methodological difficulties of previous studies and the overemphasis of the impact of cerebral dominance on functioning in normal individuals.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 505-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Saptono ◽  
Dedi Purwana ◽  
Agus Wibowo ◽  
Setyo Ferry Wibowo ◽  
Saparuddin Mukhtar ◽  
...  

Purpose of the study: This study examines the impact of creativity and entrepreneurship education on student entrepreneurial intentions at Jakarta State University. Methodology: This study, we applied quantitative research which conducting in two-phase First, we perform exploratory factor analysis test, and the second phase, we confirmatory factor analysis using AMOS version 18. Main Findings: This study carried out the findings that there is an impact on creativity on entrepreneurial education, lectures on individual creativity, entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention, and creativity supported in the university on individual creativity. Furthermore, creativity supported not impact on entrepreneurial intention, and individual creativity has not to impact on entrepreneurial intention. Applications of this study: This research can be used by university leaders to increase students’ intention to become entrepreneurs through optimizing entrepreneurship education and creativity support from universities. Novelty/Originality of this study: In this study, we found that there was an influence of lecturer on creativity on entrepreneurship education. Previous researchers have never revealed this finding. Our research also found the impact of individual creativity on the intention of entrepreneurship. This finding has not been revealed in some previous studies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Rosman Mahmood ◽  
Ahmad Suffian Mohd Zahari ◽  
Norlaila Ibrahim ◽  
Nik Fazlin Hiryati Nik Jaafar ◽  
Najihah Marha Yaacob

The importance of entrepreneurial role in supporting the country's economic growth has been recognized by experts in the field of entrepreneurship. Today the importance of entrepreneurship has become increasingly important where it has turned into a priority for developing countries including Malaysia. Now, there are many higher educational institutions that are aware of the importance of applying entrepreneurial skills in higher education. Therefore, public universities have to implement entrepreneurship education to encourage students to venture into entrepreneurship. This study examined the effects of entrepreneurship education in influencing business performance among ITM/UiTM graduates. A total of 250 graduates from various businesses in Malaysia participated voluntarily in this study by completing survey questionnaires. A series of statistical analysis were applied including descriptive analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regressions analysis using the SPSS software. The results of the study indicate that university curriculum, relational factor, society factor, and entrepreneurship values were found to have significant influences on business performance. However, the results revealed that the university role has no significant influence on business performance. The findings of this study contribute to entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship literature by adding new empirical evidence on the relationship between university curriculum, relational factors, society factor, and entrepreneurship values on business performance. In terms of managerial implications, the findings help HEI’s in organizing entrepreneurship education dimensions, particularly in strategizing, marketing, decision making, and positioning themselves in the business industry.   Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, Business performance, Entrepreneurship values, University curriculum, University role, Relational factors, Society factor.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Nor Asiah Omar ◽  
Najeeb Ullah Shah ◽  
Norhafizah Abu Hasan ◽  
Mohd Helmi Ali

Entrepreneurship education has been implemented in higher institutions in order to give exposure and develop students’ skills and interest in business. Although entrepreneurship course is taught in many universities, researchers are still arguing whether entrepreneurship education is related to the intention to start a business. This study investigated the impact of self-efficacy, independence, and motivation on entrepreneurial intentions among university students. A total of 496 questionnaires were completed by students of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) who attended Fundamental of Entrepreneurship and Innovation during the academic year 2017/2018 as their compulsory subject. Using PLS-SEM, a two-step approach was used to analyze the data. Self-efficacy, independence, and motivation were found to significantly influence the students’ intention to become entrepreneur, explaining 52% of the variance in intention to become entrepreneur. Additionally, the findings indicate that motivation is the key factor in the entrepreneurial intent of the students. These findings contribute to a better understanding of students’ intention to become an entrepreneur, which is a necessary step to increase more university students to become job creators rather than job seekers. Thus, higher education institutions should revise the curriculum and establish measures to incorporate these three factors for enhancing entrepreneurship education programs at the university.   Keywords: Entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial intention, independence, motivation, self-efficacy   Cite as: Omar, N. A., Shah, N. U., Abu Hasan, N., & Ali, M. H. (2019). The influence of self-efficacy, motivation, and independence on students’ entrepreneurial intention. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(2), 1-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss2pp1-28


The university is considered one of the engines of growth in a local economy or its market area, since its direct contributions consist of 1) employment of faculty and staff, 2) services to students, and supply chain links vendors, all of which define the University’s Market area. Indirect contributions consist of those agents associated with the university in terms of community and civic events. Each of these activities represent economic benefits to their host communities and can be classified as the economic impact a university has on its local economy and whose spatial market area includes each of the above agents. In addition are the critical links to the University, which can be considered part of its Demand and Supply chain. This paper contributes to the field of Public/Private Impact Analysis, which is used to substantiate the social and economic benefits of cooperating for economic resources. We use Census data on Output of Goods and Services, Labor Income on Salaries, Wages and Benefits, Indirect State and Local Taxes, Property Tax Revenue, Population, and Inter-Industry to measure economic impact (Implan, 2016).


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