Entrepreneurial education and learning at universities: exploring multilevel contingencies

By Davide Hahn, Tommaso Minola, Anita Van Gils, Jolien Huybrechts. 2017

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Abstract Despite the worldwide increase in entrepreneurship education offered at universities, there is an ongoing debate whether and under which conditions this type of education contributes to students’ entrepreneurial learning. Building on human capital theory, we hypothesize that the exposure to various entrepreneurship education initiatives has an inverted U-shaped relationship with entrepreneurial learning outcomes. We also argue that this relationship is moderated by the entrepreneurial experience of the students, the teaching pedagogy applied in entrepreneurial initiatives offered at the university and the prevalence of opportunity-driven entrepreneurship in the country. A multi-level analysis on a cross-country sample of 87,918 students resulting from GUESSS (‘Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey’) strongly confirms our hypotheses, and allows us to discuss implications for researchers, educators and policy makers with respect to the nature of entrepreneurial learning, the design of entrepreneurial education programs, as well as the contextual conditions that impact entrepreneurial learning outcomes.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Individual entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: The mediating role of entrepreneurial motivations (2021, background): “…regarding the relationship between IEO and entrepreneurship education: Farsi et al. (2014), Westhead and Solesvik (2015), Jones et al. (2017), Hahn et al. (2017) and Passaro et al. (2018) found a significant relationship but Gurel et al. (2010) and Schwarz et al. (2009) did not find any…”
What can education bring to entrepreneurship? Formal versus non-formal education (2020, background): “However, these perceptions can help students understand that they need further experience before engaging in entrepreneurial activities (Hahn et al., 2017).”
Does entrepreneurship education and culture promote students’ entrepreneurial intention? The mediating role of entrepreneurial mindset (2021, background): “Entrepreneurial education also allows students to hold skills and management training that enhances entrepreneurial knowledge, encourages entrepreneurial mindset, improves management understanding and entrepreneurial intention (Hahn et al., 2017).”