To educate and inspire

To educate or not to educate? That is the question!

How to Educate Entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education...

Future scenarios to inspire innovation

In recent years and accelerated by the economic and financial crisis, complex global issues have moved to the forefront of policy making. These grand challenges require policy makers to address a variety of interrelated issues, which are built upon yet uncoordinated and dispersed bodies of knowledge. Due to the social dynamics of innovation, new socio-technical subsystems are emerging, however ...

Physicians' intention to educate about emergency contraception.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our objective was to examine the intention of academic primary care physicians to educate women about emergency contraception (EC) and whether differences in their intention varies with patient situation, knowledge and attitudes about EC, gender, or specialty. METHODS As part of a larger cross-sectional survey about intention to prescribe EC with 96 faculty physician...

Are Charter School Students Harder to Educate

One point of debate in the recent controversy in the media and among policy analysts over the academic achievement of charter school students is whether the charter students are in some way harder to educate than their counterparts enrolled in traditional public schools. In this paper we examine this question using data from the 2002-3 school year in Washington, D.C. We begin by examining a sim...