Entrepreneurship education : new perspectives on entrepreneurship education / edited by Paul Jones, Gideon Maas, Luke Pittaway.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

Front Cover; Entrepreneurship Education: New Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Reference; New Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Education; Introduction; Conclusions; References; Part I: Studies of the Impact of Entrepreneurship Education upon Student Communities; Learning to Evolve: Increasing Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Putting the Market First; Introduction; Entrepreneurial Learning; The Evolutionary Heuristic of Learning; The Evolution of Opportunities through Discovery

The Evolution of Skills and Competences through the Exploitation of OpportunitiesMethod; Participants; Independent Variables; Development Time; Qualitative Changes to Business Idea; Dependant Variables; Self-Efficacy; Externally Evaluated Quality of Opportunity; Method of Analysis; Findings; Self-Evaluated Quality of Opportunity; Market-Driven Changes to Ideas; Externally Evaluated Quality of Opportunities; Start-Up Group versus Non-Start-Up Group; Discussion; Implications for Learning and Teaching, and Practice; Conclusion; References

Educational Context and Entrepreneurial Intentions of University Students: An Italian StudyIntroduction; Entrepreneurial Intentions: Their Importance and Their Antecedents; Risk Perception and Non-Pecuniary Career Motives; Cognitive Antecedents of Intentions: Attitude, Norms and Control; The Role of the Educational Context; Methodology; Sample; Dependent Variable; Entrepreneurial Intentions; Determinants of Intentions: Cognitive Antecedents of Intentions; Attitude towards Entrepreneurship; Subjective Norms; Perceived Behavioural Control (PBC)

Personal Background Factors: Risk Perceptions and Career MotivesRisk Perception; Non-Pecuniary Career Motives; Moderators: The Educational Context; Learning Experience; University Climate; Control Variables; Analysis; Results; Discussion and Conclusions; Theoretical Implications; Practical Implications for Entrepreneurship Education; Limitations and Further Research; Notes; References; Undergraduate Students' Willingness to Start Own Agribusiness Venture after Graduation: A Ghanaian Case; Introduction; Literature Review; Graduate Entrepreneurship and Education

Agribusiness and Graduate Entrepreneurship in GhanaDeterminants of Students' Willingness to Be Self-Employed in Agribusiness; Personal and Background Characteristics as Predictors of Self-Employment; Age; Gender/Sex; Place of Residency; Parental Role Models; Parental Educational Level; Attitudes Towards and Nature of Agribusiness; Methodology; The Logit Model Specification; Results and Discussion; Personal Characteristics of Respondent; Other Personal Characteristics of Undergraduates; Undergraduates' Willingness to Start Own Agribusiness after Graduation

Policymakers consider enterprise education, and the skills it develops, as increasing student's employability skills. This book delivers further insight to validate this. Authors provide evidence to inform the entrepreneurial education discipline in terms of best practice, success stories and identify its future direction for key stakeholders.

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