Entrepreneurship Education: New Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education

Paul Jones · Gideon Maas · Luke Pittaway · Gerard McElwee

jun 2017 · Emerald Group Publishing

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Universities globally are under pressure from an expanding range of stakeholders to provide enterprise education and support to students. Enterprise education had become a research domain in itself and an increasingly important aspect of UK universities’ curricular. Within the UK, policymakers consider enterprise education, and the skills it develops, as increasing student’s employability skills, regardless of what their primary subject of study is, and thereby assisting them in gaining employment upon. Despite this growth, there is ongoing debate regarding the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and there are calls for further evidence to validate its impact. This book meets that call in providing further evidence for best practice and successful deployment. Authors provide evidence to inform the entrepreneurial education discipline in terms of best practice, success stories and identify its future direction for key stakeholders. The book concludes with a summary from the authors which will analyse and contrast the emergent themes identified in each chapter.

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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.