International Review of Entrepreneurship: Recent submissions
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Teaching Dispositional Optimism in the Entrepreneurial Classroom
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)This study demonstrates that dispositional optimism, a key trait found in successful entrepreneurs, can be effectively measured and enhanced in the entrepreneurial classroom. Undergraduate students with an expressed interest ... -
Entrepreneurship: Unique Solutions for Unique Environments. Is it Possible to Achieve This with the Existing Paradigm?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)The paper explores the capacity of the entrepreneurship paradigm to produce unique solutions for unique environments. To achieve this goal the paper argues the need for a wider entrepreneurship paradigm than that which ... -
Social Entrepreneurship Education: Policy, Core Themes and Developmental Competencies
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)Examining the policy context for social enterprises in the UK, in this paper, we argue for a comprehensive educational approach to meet the needs of social entrepreneurs and other stakeholders associated with social ... -
Beyond Emerson and the "Field of Dreams": Another Look at Innovation and Marketing
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)This note explores a new paradigm for thinking of innovation and innovating behavior, claiming that the Emerson/Field of Dreams paradigm so often used as justification for producing new highly-engineered products is a cause ... -
Graduate Entrepreneurship, ADHD and the Creation of Young Entrepreneurs: Is There a Need to Rethink?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)Around the world education institutions are being charged with the creation of more student entrepreneurs. One group of young people whom, like many successful entrepreneurs, do not normally succeed in the formal education ... -
Entrepreneurship: A Survey of the Literature for Public Policy
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2007)This paper seeks to provide a roadmap to the entrepreneurship literature. Providing this roadmap is a challenge because entrepreneurship crosses the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines, incorporating not just ... -
Think Entrepreneur, Think Male? Business Students' Assumptions About a Hypothetical Entrepreneur
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)We used the Schein Descriptive Index to investigate the extent to which the stereotype of "entrepreneur" is male. Undergraduate business students rated a hypothetical male entrepreneur as similar to a gender-unspecified ... -
The Enterprise Intern Scheme: The role of students as ambassadors in peer-to-peer marketing and culture change
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)This study evaluates a novel scheme in which students were employed to educate their peers on the benefits of enterprise skills and facilitate the promotion of entrepreneurship across the Newcastle University campus. In ... -
Integrating enterprise education with science and engineering degrees: A case study
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)Characterised by post industrial capitalism, the UK economy, as in other modern nations, is increasingly based on innovation, knowledge and enterprise. The UK government is focused on expanding the volume of science and ... -
Developing Self-Efficacy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: An Educational Approach
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)This paper presents findings of research undertaken on Enterprisers, a five-day, extra-curricula educational programme supported by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), designed to enhance entrepreneurial capabilities and ... -
Developing Entrepreneurship Education: Comparing Traditional and Alternative Teaching Approaches
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)Over the last 15 years there has been increasing interest in the topic of entrepreneurship education. The practical nature of entrepreneurship has led to debates between those wedded to traditional 'top-down instructive' ... -
Towards the Entrepreneurial University?
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)The paper explores the concept of an entrepreneurial university. It has its rationale in the growing focus of public policy, not only in the UK but also in Europe, North America and globally on enhancing the role that the ... -
The State of Education Provision for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: A Mapping Study of England's HEIs
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of provision for enterprise and entrepreneurship education within England's Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The paper is based on the National ... -
The State of Entrepreneurship Education: A Review of the United Kingdom
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Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Discovery: A Classroom Methodology for Idea Generation
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2006)The consideration-set search method used assumes that the value of wealth-generating opportunities is directly related to expertise in specific areas of an individual's prior knowledge. This paper pursues two objectives. ... -
Entrepreneurial Myths: Using Biographies and (Ante)Narrative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship Education
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2005)This paper reports the results of an experiment in the use of (ante)narrative research methods to analyze entrepreneurial biographies in order to help students develop the kind of thinking that is entrepreneurial. The paper ... -
Time Management for Novice Nascent Entrepreneurs
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2005)Starting a business involves a range of time-consuming activities. Time however can be scarce when the nascent entrepreneur is still employed, thus working on the business after hours. In addition, novice nascent entrepreneurs ... -
The Transformation to Professional Management at Pardee Homes
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2005)This article presents a case study of the transition of Pardee Homes from an entrepreneurship to a professionally managed firm. It examines changes in leadership, planning processes, and organizational structure involved ... -
Entrepreneurial Profiles: Competencies and Educational Needs in East and West Germany
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2005)This paper identifies entrepreneurship competencies and education needs arising from entrepreneurial profiles in unified Germany based on an aggregate approach to international comparisons of entrepreneurship. Given previous ... -
Making the Transformation from Entrepreneurship to Professional Management: The Case of Unitech Systems
(Senate Hall, Dublin, 2005)This article presents a case study of the transition of Unitech Systems from an entrepreneurship to a professionally managed firm. It also describes an approach to the development of a system for "performance optimization" ...
