Universities and enterprise education: responding to the challenges of the new era.

By David Rae. 2010

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the international financial and economic crisis in 2008 produced a new economic era with significant implications for enterprise and entrepreneurship education. It aims to explore the changing influences on entrepreneurship education and learning, what is the new era in entrepreneurship, the consequences of changing economic, social and cultural movements, and how entrepreneurship education and learning can respond to these challenges.Design/methodology/approach – The research approach is informed by practitioner‐based educational enquiry, reflective practice and research, education and participation with groups of universities, educators, students, entrepreneurs and other groups during the economic crisis.Findings – The paper proposes that the nature of entrepreneurship is changing in response to social and cultural movements in the new economic era. Ethical and environmental concerns are creating a discourse of responsible entrepreneurship informed ...

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

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Citations in the corpus

Entrepreneurial intentions: is education enough? (2013, background): “Instead, the focus is on the tangible and quantifiable outcome of a business plan (Rae 2010).”
Entrepreneurship and the determinants of firm survival within regions: human capital, growth motivation and locational conditions (2017, unknown): “…recently been calls for changes to the teaching within university business schools to ensure they equips their graduates with the entrepreneurial skills needed for the modern workplace, and generally for business schools to engage more directly with society and business (Rae 2010; Martin 2012a).”
Entrepreneurship Assessment in Higher Education: A Research Review for Engineering Education Researchers (2018, background): “It is “about creating new opportunities and executing in uncertain and even currently unknowable environments” (Neck et al., 2011), and, as such, learning the entrepreneurial process adds value to all students (Rae, 2010).”
The impact of higher education on entrepreneurial intention and human capital (2018, background): “…IV E R SI T Y O F N E W E N G L A N D ( A U S) A t 1 1: 20 0 7 M ar ch 2 01 8 (P T ) influence individuals’ predisposition towards entrepreneurship (Rae, 2010; Thomas et al., 2014; Secundo, De Beer, Schutte and Passiante, 2017), encouraging perceived attractiveness and the personal feasibility of…”