The research on entrepreneurship as an economic phenomenon often assumes its desirability as a driver of economic development and growth. However, entrepreneurial talent can be allocated among productive, unproductive and destructive activities. This allocation has important implications in the developing world, particularly for countries hosting conflict or recovering from conflict. The alloca...

Entrepreneurship researchers and public policy analysts have promoted governmental programs as a means of increasing business creation activity and success rates. This review suggests that attitudes toward and by women may be the single most important factor in the propensity and sustainability of new enterprise creation by women. Rather than create programs specifically targeted to new busines...

We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform Arellano-Bond GMM estimations on annual data (over the period 1990-2002) from a large group of developing countries and focus in particular on the interplay between policy and institutional reforms and entrepreneurship. We find that the joint effect of trade reform and entrepr...

Entrepreneurs are people who create new businesses, which help create new jobs for people. They help in intensifying competition, with the help of technology they master in increasing productivity and thus contributing in the development of the country, followed by economic growth. So it can be said that entrepreneurship is good for economic growth .The paper will justify how far this stands tr...

Purpose – This paper considers the requirements for an industry sector approach to entrepreneurship education – The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector. We present a modified Process Framework for Entrepreneurship Education focusing specifically on ICT. The primary components of the Process Framework are described (inputs, process and content, assessment and outputs) to assis...

The purpose of this research is to examine the practices school administrators and teachers towards social entrepreneurship in schools. Within scope general purpose, reasons that reveal activities, how implementation process takes place, results implementations, problems encountered suggestions for supporting activities have been investigated. study group consists 6 selected by snowball samplin...

This study, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), assesses the impact of entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) on entrepreneurial intentions of 205 students following entrepreneurship courses at six Iranian universities. Data were collected by a questionnaire before and after completing EEPs. Result indicated that EEPs significantly influence perceived behavioral control and subj...

Entrepreneurship education has been broadened to include a wide variety of disciplines and areas of study beyond the management fields. However, little attention has been given to the diverse motives and practices of the faculty who participate in multidisciplinary models of entrepreneurship education. This research explores the factors driving a diverse group of faculty to participate in an in...

Research in the pre-paradigmatic, applied scientific field of entrepreneurship is characterized mainly as exploratory. This article advocates for a considerable shift toward a more effective applied research agenda. An applied research program is proposed based on modifications to a Lakatosian research program. The agenda extends beyond typical calls for more replication work to include a focus...