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Evaluating Entrepreneurship Education

Part of the Innovation und Entrepreneurship Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-3654-7

ISBN: 978-3-8349-3653-0

Publisher: Gabler Verlag - Springer Journals

Feb 11, 2012

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Chapter 1Introduction

Weber, Richard

Pages: 1 –31

[Governmental departments in many countries are convinced that it is possible to motivate students at tertiary institutions of education to become entrepreneurs and to start their own businesses. The importance of entrepreneurship education and training was emphasized at the World Economic Forum...
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Chapter 2Theoretical Foundations

Weber, Richard

Pages: 33 –78

[This research project aims at assessing the effects of entrepreneurship education on students” ability to discover whether an entrepreneurial career suits them. In the previous chapter I argued that this assessment has to be done directly after students have finished the course. But neither...
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Chapter 3Institutional Setting and Presentation of the Dataset

Weber, Richard

Pages: 79 –148

[Overall, this book aims at discussing and determining the effects of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions, both from a theoretical, but also from an empirical perspective. Having laid out the theoretical foundations in the previous chapter, I now describe my...
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Chapter 4Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions

Weber, Richard

Pages: 149 –166

[Researchers in the field of entrepreneurship aim at developing a better understanding of individual deliberations regarding the attraction of an entrepreneurial career. The Theory of Planned Behavior has become a widely used theoretical framework to predict entrepreneurial activity and explore...
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Chapter 5Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education – a Quasi-Experimental Approach

Weber, Richard

Pages: 167 –200

[The studies by Peterman and Kennedy (2003), Souitaris et al. (2007), and Oosterbeek et al. (2010) make important contributions to the literature on the effects of entrepreneurship education. These exploit data from a treatment and control group to determine the true causal effects of...
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Chapter 6A Bayesian Updating Approach to Evaluate Entrepreneurship Education

Weber, Richard

Pages: 201 –263

[In their recent study, employing a new approach to evaluate entrepreneurship education based on Bayesian Updating, Graevenitz et al. (2010) show that attending an entrepreneurship course helps students to find out about their entrepreneurial aptitude and supports them to better self-select into...
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Chapter 7Peer Effects in Entrepreneurship Education

Weber, Richard

Pages: 265 –320

[Although important both for educational production (e.g. Sacerdote 2001) and the formation of entrepreneurial activity (e.g. Nanda and Sørensen 2010), the effects of social interactions on the development of entrepreneurial skills in entrepreneurship education have been completely ignored so...
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Chapter 8Conclusion and Avenues for Further Research

Weber, Richard

Pages: 321 –327

[Entrepreneurship is an important driver of the economy and plays an important role for social welfare in general (e.g. Fritsch and Müller 2008). By contrast, failure as an entrepreneur can be costly both for society and for the individual. On the one hand, for example in the context of funding...

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