Entrepreneurship Education

Paul Jones is Deputy Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship and Professor in Entrepreneurship at Coventry University with over 24 years’ experience in the university sector. Professor Jones is an active researcher in the entrepreneurship discipline with in excess of 200 research outputs including edited books, academic journals, book chapters and conference papers. He has published his research in journals such as the “International Small Business Journal”, “Omega” and “Journal of Business Research”. Professor Jones has published research in information communication technology usage, entrepreneurship and small business management and entrepreneurship education.Gideon Maas is Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship at Coventry University. Gideon has created several entrepreneurship centres, developed and implemented undergraduate and post-graduate modules and programmes in enterprise and entrepreneurship. Recently, Gideon created the African Institute for Transformational Entrepreneurship assisting African countries in supporting sustainable socio-economic growth. Gideon’s current research focus is in entrepreneurship, open innovation, growth strategies, entrepreneurial universities, implementation of entrepreneurial systems and family businesses. Luke Pittaway is the Copeland Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Ohio University (Athens, OH). He also holds a senior leadership role within the Department of Management including scheduling, junior faculty mentoring and area coordination for entrepreneurship programs and new programme development. He was formerly the William A. Freeman Distinguished Chair in Free Enterprise and the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Learning and Leadership at Georgia Southern University where he managed programs in entrepreneurship until May 2013. Dr. Pittaway’s research focuses on entrepreneurship education and learning and he has a range of other interests including: entrepreneurial behavior; networking; entrepreneurial failure; business growth; and, corporate venturing.

Contributed by entrepreneurship, business, management, and economics researchers from Europe, Ghana, the US, and Brazil, the 14 chapters in this volume consider evidence for best practices in the construction and delivery of entrepreneurship education around the world, as well as success stories and the future direction of the field. They address its impact on student communities, with discussion of a learning-based approach, drivers of entrepreneurial intentions, determinants of entrepreneurial spirit, and the impact of UK entrepreneurship education on the entrepreneurial actions of Russian students; new pedagogical practices, including techniques that affect the way students think about entrepreneurship, creating meaningful entrepreneurial practice, the impact of an experiential visual-based learning pedagogy, entrepreneurial education for business executives, and constructivist teaching; and new interventions to engage with the entrepreneurship education agenda, such as summer academies, enterprise education in vocational education, a sandwich-year placement scheme, and an inclusive and accessible entrepreneurship education initiative.

• New Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education; Paul Jones, Gideon Maas and Luke Pittaway Part 1: Studies of the impact of entrepreneurship education upon student communities Learning to Evolve: Increasing Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Putting the Market First; Dermot Breslin Educational Context and Entrepreneurial Intentions of University Students: an Italian study; Alessandra Tognazzo, Martina Gianecchini and Paolo Gubitta Undergraduates willingness to start their own Agribusiness Venture after Graduation: a Ghanaian case; Martin Bosompem, Samuel Dadzie and Edwin Tandoh The Impact of Modern UK University Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Education on Entrepreneurial Actions: A Case Study of Russian Students; Selwyn Seymour and Yuliana Topazly Part 2: Novel Entrepreneurship Education Pedagogy Teaching entrepreneurship as lived experience through 'wonderment exercises'; Rita Klapper and Helle Neergaard Creating Meaningful Entrepreneurial Practice: crafting pedagogical awareness; David Higgins and Deema RefaiEnhanced Entrepreneurial learning through Visual experiential learning; Paul Jones, Robert Newbery and Philip Underwood Ludic Entrepreneurial Executives: The Case for Play in Entrepreneurial Learning Design; Ricardo Zamora and Ed Gonsalves Constructivist entrepreneurial teaching: the TeleCC online approach in Greece; Alexander Kakouris Part 3: Entrepreneurship Education Intervention Pan-European Entrepreneurial Summer Academies with lmpact: The Case of STARTIFY7; Dimitris Bibikas, Tim Vorley and Robert Wapshott Boundary crossing workshops for enterprise education: A capability approach; Daniele Morselli Experiencing Business Start-Up Through An Enterprise Placement Year; Kelly Smith and Phillip Clegg Designing and Delivering Inclusive and Accessible Entrepreneurship Education; Anne Smith, Declan Jones, Bernadette Scott and Adriano Stadler