The study examined the entrepreneurship awareness and skills among Library and Information Science (LIS) students in two Nigerian Universities. In Nigeria, the overcrowded job market is forcing thousands of graduates into unemployment and its associated consequences of kidnapping, drug addiction, youth restiveness and general poor standard of living. This has made it imperative that graduates b...

Lately, Open Data (OD) has been promoted by governments around the world as a resource to accelerate innovation within entrepreneurial ventures . However,it remains unclear what extent OD drives innovative entrepreneurship. This paper sheds light on this open question providing novel empirical evidence relationship between publishing and (digital) entrepreneurship at country-level. We draw upon...

Cultivation of innovative talents has already been the focus of education research, in this paper; we research the innovation and entrepreneurship education system, constructing the index system of innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students. Using the analytic hierarchy process and gray theory, we studied the quantitative evaluation of innovation and entrepreneurship educati...

The enterprise culture is founded on the premise that entrepreneurship is the engine that drives the economy. One aspect of this cultural pervasion is the increase in the numbers of educational institutions teaching entrepreneurship courses. Yet this hegemony of the encouragement of new business start-up, almost for its own sake, needs to be critically reviewed. One aspect is the enigmatic natu...

Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. However, the rate of entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate, or the number of startups. We argue that those metrics give rise to misleading inferences regarding high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. To unambiguously...

Rural entrepreneurship can be considered as one of the solutions to reduce poverty, migration and develop employment in rural environments. In this study, the necessity of sustainable entrepreneurship, the effective factors and the barriers to entrepreneurship in rural area will be described. In this regard, a model has been considered to create a sustainable rural entrepreneurship area by esta...

professors are one of the most effective factors in educating the students and in the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial education. undoubtedly, the value biases of the entrepreneurship trainers have a fundamental role in forming their behavior in the process of entrepreneurship education. that is why the following research problem has been raised: what are the values of the entrepreneurship ...

Funding information Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; SSHRC Research Summary: We evaluate a technology entrepreneurship training program by comparing career decisions among applicants accepted into the program with unaccepted applicants who are program finalists. We fin...