...Eric Liguori; Jeff Muldoon; Josh Bendickson Purpose Experiential education is key if the authors as scholar-educators are to empower the next generation of students to recognize opportunities, exploit them and succeed in entrepreneurship. Experiences facilitate the bridge between theory...

... Entrepreneurship education thrives on the pillars of experiential education. Using the case of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, the purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurship clinic (EC) as a viable pedagogy for the promotion of experiential education...

... et al. (2008) , in their study of Bangladesh, reported that all citizens of this country suffer from poverty, but women and children bear most of the burden as they face discrimination in health, nutrition, education, employment and political participation. Women are also “time poor” (i.e. time...

...Fernando Lourenço; Tony G. Taylor; David W. Taylor Purpose This paper seeks to highlight the role of entrepreneurship education in encouraging the growth of graduate entrepreneurship in the UK to help overcome the over‐supply of university graduates in a very difficult employment market...

...Harry Matlay; David Rae; Panagiotis Piperopoulos Purpose This paper aims to explore and analyse the impact of higher education programmes, structures and culture on students' entrepreneurship intentions and attitudes. It investigates the relationships between education and entrepreneurship using...

...Colin Jones Purpose This paper seeks to focus on two questions. First, what value is created by entrepreneurship education? Second, how could any such value be created? The aim therefore is to go beyond any assumed notion that entrepreneurship education is beneficial to students in higher...

... for entrepreneurship educators in industrially developed and developing countries. Harry Matlay can be contacted at: harry.matlay@bcu.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Entrepreneurialism Education Internet Motivation (psychology) China The advent of the internet and ongoing...

...Damodharan Varadarajan Sowmya; Sudipa Majumdar; Monica Gallant Purpose Preparing today's students for success and eventual leadership in the new global marketplace is one of the most important responsibilities in education today. This study seeks to represent the first, in‐depth analysis of future...

... as a stock‐taking exercise, it fails to address critical questions around the impact of higher education on entrepreneurship and the transition from entrepreneurial intent to the act of venture creation. Originality/value The paper provides an important positioning perspective on the relationship between...

...Michele O'Dwyer; Angelica Risquez; Ann Ledwith Purpose This paper seeks to contribute to entrepreneurship education research by exploring entrepreneurship students' views of plagiarism, and their ability to recognise and avoid plagiarism. Design/methodology/approach The study is based...

...James W. Peltier; Carol Scovotti Purpose This paper aims to report the findings of a large‐scale multinational study of students in a marketing organization that investigates the need to expand entrepreneurship education in the marketing curriculum. Key questions include what...

...Gary Bosworth Purpose In a period of rural economic change, knowledge and skills transfers and the generation of new economic opportunities are seen as essential for promoting rural development. The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of the impact of educated in‐migrants establishing new...

...Harry Matlay Purpose This paper aims to explore stakeholder involvement in, and expectation of, entrepreneurship education in UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach Longitudinal telephone surveys were conducted annually over an eight‐year period (2000 to 2007...

...Jun Li; Cindy Millman; Harry Matlay; Fan Liu Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of entrepreneurship education in the wider context of the Chinese educational system in transition and raise pertinent questions regarding its direction and future development. Design/methodology...

...Harry Matlay The first chapter in Part I was authored by Louis Jacques Filion and Fernando Dolabela. It evaluates the introduction of entrepreneurial pedagogy in the early stages of education in Brazil. In the second chapter, Sylvia Maxfield presents the entrepreneurship gender gap in a global...

...George Solomon; Leona Achtenhagen; Dodo zu Knyphausen‐Aufsess Purpose To date, entrepreneurship education mainly targets pupils of different age groups as well as undergraduate and graduate students. Despite a growing interest in entrepreneurship there are few doctoral programs solely dedicated...

...Harry Matlay Entrepreneurialism Education This volume opens with a Foreword by Professor Jerome Katz in which the author introduces readers to the Third Wave of Entrepreneurship Education. It is an informative and well written feature that succinctly conceptualises...

... and motivations presented by each of them. Practical implications The identification of the entrepreneurs' characteristics and the knowledge of the potential business creator students' profile may be important for the development of an adequate educational programme directed to the entrepreneurship education...

..., the use of intentions as dependent variable has its own weaknesses in that it may not distinguish between “dreamers” and “doers”. Practical implications The findings indicate that exercises in creativity can be used to raise the entrepreneurial intentions of students in entrepreneurship education...

.... Additionally, a participant observation approach was adopted. Concerning the theoretical approach, the related literature in entrepreneurship education was reviewed. Findings The analysis supports the notions that the launching of a doctoral programme is similar to the process of creating a new business...