in spite of the importance of academic entrepreneurship, universities and higher education institutions lack accurate information and measures to monitor and evaluate activities of academic entrepreneurship. indicators of academic entrepreneurship could be used as units of strategic information for planning entrepreneurial university development.  thus, this research aimed to identify and valid...

The development of curriculum to facilitate the development of graduate entrepreneurship is a challenging task. That we can help graduate students become entrepreneurs is a frequently challenged assumption. To make matters worse there is little consensus as to how entrepreneurship education should be delivered. This paper argues that our focus should be first and foremost on the processes assoc...

Drawing on the theory of planned behaviour, this study tests the effect of entrepreneurship programmes on the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of science and engineering students. This is necessary in order to confirm (or disconfirm) conventional wisdom that entrepreneurship education increases the intention to start a business. The results show that the programmes raise some attitudes ...

The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade of primary school. We focus on pupils’ development of relev...

This paper introduces a case study of the entrepreneurship studies in the Faculty of Telecommunication and e-Business at Turku University of Applied Sciences. There are three levels of entrepreneurship studies in our faculty: a) What is entrepreneurship? –to raise the awareness and motivation towards entrepreneurship, b) Student co-operatives and Support centres for training the students with t...

Public policy statements on enterprise and entrepreneurship education have emphasised its importance in relation to the promotion of economic growth, community development and resilience. However, there is continuing debate over the nature, scope and effectiveness of existing approaches. For example, a recent United Kingdom government study found that while there is evidence of an overall stren...

using analytical hierarchical process (ahp), this research was done with aim of prioritizing alternatives and criteria of integrating entrepreneurship education in higher agricultural education. at first, respecting these alternatives and criteria, a three-level decision making tree was outlined. required data was collected through pair wise comparison through 27 questionnaires filled by sample...

Todd is a PhD Student in Engineering Education at Purdue University who's research is focused on en-trepreneurship education and entrepreneurship education as a component of modern engineering education efforts. He is a CAPES grantee and also professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Technology at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia. He is a mechanical...

Public policy statements on enterprise and entrepreneurship education have emphasised its importance in relation to the promotion of economic growth, community development and resilience. However, there is continuing debate over the nature, scope and effectiveness of existing approaches. For example, a recent United Kingdom government study found that while there is evidence of an overall stren...