scholarly journals Seven Challenges in Conceptualizing and Assessing Entrepreneurial Skills or Mindsets in Engineering Entrepreneurship Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Constanza Miranda ◽  
Julian Goñi ◽  
Bruk Berhane ◽  
Adam Carberry
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
Definition Of

The growth of undergraduate entrepreneurship education programs and research, both within and outside of business programs, has led to a diverse array of academic literature on this topic. The diversity of perspectives has led to many conceptual and educational challenges that remain unresolved within the literature. The following conceptual paper offers a critical perspective on challenges that have been identified. A narrative-style literature review was conducted to explore challenges emerging from both (a) the practice of teaching entrepreneurship and (b) the definitions and assessment of entrepreneurial mindsets and skills that result from those education processes in entrepreneurship education, particularly within an undergraduate engineering education context. We achieve this objective by discussing previously dispersed sources of literature from disciplines that have critically discussed and explored entrepreneurial themes, such as business education, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. Contemporary debates within multiple disciplines are integrated and organized as challenges to inspire new theoretical discussions among scholars, educators, and other practitioners that can inform a more comprehensive way to conceive and assess entrepreneurship in engineering education. Seven challenges were identified ranging from the definition of entrepreneurship in education to the role of ethics in the teaching and assessment of entrepreneurship. We use these seven challenges and research questions as a starting point for the disambiguation of the working definition of entrepreneurship in the context of engineering education.

Entrepreneurship Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Arminda Guerra Lopes ◽  
Eurico Ribeiro Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Dynamic Component ◽  
Static Component ◽  
Innovative Process ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter focuses on entrepreneurship having students as actors. Students were engaged in the development of a business project. They turned ideas into action in a creative and innovative process. The academic study was conducted at a Polytechnic Health school. They used the management common tools to develop the idea and they experienced the role of an entrepreneur. Conversely, one of the aspects that contributed to the motivation for this work lies into the existing gap concerning project management applied to entrepreneurship. The current literature focuses on the definition of the business plan, a static component of entrepreneurship, which is fundamental for financing domains, but it neglects the dynamic component essential for the development of a business idea. The student majors' rewards were related with the teamwork environment: collaboration, communication, and creativity. This chapter provides to entrepreneurship educators, valuable insights on how to improve the effectiveness of the business project requirements in entrepreneurship education curriculum.

Portuguese research shows value of entrepreneurial training in developing necessary skills

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The North ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Training ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training

Purpose The goal was to study how entrepreneurship education and training programmes (EETPs) influence the development of entrepreneurial competencies and creation of business venture Design/methodology/approach The authors tested a series of hypotheses on the EETPs designed for the Sabor Entrepreneurship Programme (SEP), in northern Portugal. They used a detailed questionnaire. At the time of the research (2018), the SEP had had five editions across Sabor’s five municipalities. The main aim of the EETPs was to train participants to run their own companies. Findings The study showed that the entrepreneurship education and training programmes (EETP) developed in the Sabor Region in the north helped participants to develop entrepreneurial skills. Despite these positive results, the researchers were unable to prove statistically that the programme had a definite influence on the creation of companies. Too many other factors, such as financing, bureaucracy and access to information proved critical in the formation of new businesses. Originality/value The researchers were motivated to carry out their research because EETPs have been rapidly expanding throughout the world, but there is no consensus about their effectiveness, or about the best elements to include. To bridge the gaps, the authors examined the role of EETPs in the development of entrepreneurial skills and the creation of businesses.

scholarly journals Towards a shared understanding of sustainability for neglected tropical disease programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. e0009595
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Glenn ◽  
Aparna Barua Adams ◽  
Girija Sankar ◽  
Carolyn Henry ◽  
Karen Palacio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Resource Mobilization ◽  
Tropical Disease ◽  
Neglected Tropical Disease ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Extensive Consultation ◽  
Definition Of

Background Sustainability within neglected tropical disease (NTD) programs is a complex and challenging issue. The need for a shared understanding about what sustainability means for NTD programs is more important than ever as stakeholders are currently realigning for the next decade of NTD programming with the launch of WHO’s new NTD roadmap for 2012–2030. The aim of this paper is to assess different perspectives to generate a working definition of sustainability for NTD programs. Methodology/Principal findings This study surveyed affiliates of the NTD NGO Network (NNN) about their definitions of sustainability and then analyzed the data using an inductive and deductive process. The research team drafted a sustainability statement based on the survey findings and then solicited and incorporated feedback on the statement from a diverse group of expert reviewers. The final statement includes a working definition of sustainability for NTD programs that highlights three key essential components to sustainability: domestic commitment, responsive resource mobilization, and accountability. Conclusions/Significance This research resulted in a sustainability statement, based on a survey and extensive consultation with stakeholders, that represents a starting point for shared understanding around the concept of sustainability for NTD programs. Future collaborative work should build off this definition and seek to incorporate indicators for sustainability into programmatic decision-making.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN A DISRUPTIVE AGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Achmad Yanu Alif Fianto ◽  
Siti Asiyah ◽  
Baiq Handayani Rinuastuti
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills

This study aims to determine (1) the influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship motivation ofmanagement student and (2) the influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial skills of management education student. This research is associative causal research with a quantitative approach. The variables of this research are in entrepreneurship education as independent variables, motivation and entrepreneurial skills as the dependent variable. The sample of population in this research is management education student respondents for about 213 students in East Java, Indonesia. Data collection techniques in this research using questionnaires and documentation. Data analysis method used was Structural Equation Model-Partial Least Square. This research finds that entrepreneurship education have a positive and significant effect towards entrepreneurship motivation and this research also finds that entrepreneurship education have a positive and significant effect towards entrepreneurship skill. From those findings, this research concludes that entrepreneurship education have a significant role in the disruptive age.

scholarly journals Music Against the Challenges of Digital Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 810-821
Author(s):  
Boris V. Markov ◽  
Dmitriy A. Yarochkin
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Political Technology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Networked Society ◽  
Anthropology Of Music

The aim of the article is to separate the concepts of musicology, music anthropology, music, and instrumentalism. This very division and reflection of the interrelations of concepts provide a starting point for a detailed study of the problems of musical instrumentalism. The article is methodological in nature. It contains a number of important settings that are necessary for the anthropological analysis of music. The Central theoretical explanation of the article is the separation of musical anthropology and the anthropology of music. For this purpose, a number of tasks, namely, the definition of the theoretical fields of musical anthropology and the anthropology of music, and the disclosure of the role of music in traditional and modern society are proposed. The concept of musical action is introduced. Solving these problems allows to give a more complete analysis of the relationship between a person and music. It is this problem that becomes the main problem in the music media mainstream, where popular music is used as a way of producing moods and experiences. Music becomes a particularly valuable commodity in a networked society, which is made not so much for the purpose of incorporating into the values of high culture but to control the behavior of people in the music market. In addition to commercialization, music is becoming an effective political technology that provides consensus among voters. In this regard, there is a cultural problem, how high art in general and music, in particular, can preserve its traditional purpose – to promote humanization

Exploring the gendered entrepreneurial identity gap: implications for entrepreneurship education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Catherine Elliott ◽  
Janet Mantler ◽  
Joie Huggins
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intent ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Innovation Economy ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Business Venturing

Purpose Women are underrepresented in most university entrepreneurship education (EE) programmes and less likely than men to pursue business venturing as a career. One reason may be the “entrepreneurial identity gap”, whereby female students do not see themselves as successful entrepreneurs. This paper aims to explore the nature of this identity gap and its relationship to entrepreneurial intent and entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach A set of contemporary, gender-inclusive entrepreneurial attributes was developed using entrepreneurial subject matter experts and tested with 591 university students to explore the nature of the gendered entrepreneurial identity gap. Findings While masculine stereotypes persist and the entrepreneurial identity gap is larger for female students, results suggest that a more gender-inclusive vocabulary of entrepreneurship is emerging among the student population and an androgynous perception of the idealized entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship education had a positive influence on entrepreneurial intent. Research limitations/implications Study findings advance the conversation about entrepreneurial identity, the nature of the gendered identity gap and the role of education in closing that gap. The questionnaire and set of gender-inclusive attributes should continue to be tested beyond student samples. Practical implications Based on this study, entrepreneurship education could benefit from more gender-inclusive instructional practices and vocabulary and a broadened definition of what it means to be entrepreneurial. More students – both men and women – will see themselves as entrepreneurs and be inspired to participate in the innovation economy. Originality/value This study takes a novel approach to the study of entrepreneurial identity, developing a new set of attributes and contemporary vocabulary around business venturing.

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