Expanding entrepreneurship education ecosystems

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Growth Oriented Entrepreneurship

Increasing the number of high growth firms (HGFs) is now a major focus for industry policy in developed countries. However, existing approaches are proving ineffective. Simply creating supportive framework conditions is insufficient. Creating favourable environments for business start-ups is not leading to the creation of more HGFs. And transactional forms of support for HGFs (e.g. financial as...

Entrepreneurship Education in Tanzania

Development requirements of university –based Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Iran

The analysis of Iran's knowledge economy suggests that the main weakness of the Iranian economy is the lack of processes of innovation and innovative entrepreneurship for the exploitation of new knowledge and technology. These processes fundamentally formed in the knowledge-based entrepreneurship ecosystems that did not developed in Iran economy and has not even known. Therefore, the purpose of...

Entrepreneurship Education – Does It Matter?

This paper addresses an answer to the research question: does entrepreneurship education lead to establishment of new firms?. The research in the paper was based on a survey with a questionnaire and the questionnaire was sent to two different groups of respondents, a Respond group (who had completed an entrepreneurship education) and a Control group (who had not passed an entrepreneurship educa...

Various Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education: Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurship Support

The importance of entrepreneurship has boomed in several last decades. Currently, the new age ofentrepreneurship is discussed a lot. The new age is primarily connected to innovation and technologicaltrends. There are no doubts that entrepreneurship and its support has got into the focus of publicpolicies. One of the very efficient ways of supporting spreading of entrepreneurship is ...