T. van der Westhuizen, Siphesile Blessing Mzulwini
{"title":"Exploring Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation and Its Relation to Entrepreneurial Action","authors":"T. van der Westhuizen, Siphesile Blessing Mzulwini","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH007","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, individual entrepreneurial orientation will be investigated to find the influence it has on entrepreneurial action of post graduate students. Individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) can help post-graduate students, teachers, investors and organisations better understand an individual's personal orientation towards taking risks, openness to new ideas and consciousness in the business environment. IEO is commonly understood as signifying the processes and decision-making activities that lead to entrepreneurship. In a systemic context, an individual constitutes a micro system and is closely linked to the various processes at differing levels of systematic development.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133873189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esteban Pérez-Calderón, Beatriz Rosado-Cebrián, María Pache-Durán, Patricia Milanés-Montero, J. Prieto-Ballester
{"title":"Generating Competencies for Employability Through Problem-Based Learning","authors":"Esteban Pérez-Calderón, Beatriz Rosado-Cebrián, María Pache-Durán, Patricia Milanés-Montero, J. Prieto-Ballester","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH004","url":null,"abstract":"This study demonstrates the suitability of the methodology of problem-based learning in the process of generating knowledge and generic competencies. The opinions of students, teachers and professionals who participated in the study were analysed, their assessment was very positive. Therefore, it is recommended to the centres quality commissions and those responsible for education in a national scope to use this methodology. Also, greater support is needed to carry out studies of greater scope that demonstrate the validity of this type of methodology. Thus, these studies could serve as a reference to universities and their teachers for the application of the most appropriate learning methodologies.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128829818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esteban Pérez-Calderón, María Pache-Durán, Beatriz Rosado-Cebrián, J. Prieto-Ballester, Patricia Milanés-Montero
{"title":"Acquiring Competencies Through Teamwork Activity","authors":"Esteban Pérez-Calderón, María Pache-Durán, Beatriz Rosado-Cebrián, J. Prieto-Ballester, Patricia Milanés-Montero","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH003","url":null,"abstract":"Employability is a crucial aspect of the European Higher Education Area. Thus, the overriding aim of curricula is the integration of knowledge (specific competencies) and personal/ occupational skills (generic/ transversal competencies). The teamwork competency is important in achieving the goal of graduate employability. Applied to the case of the financial management subject at the University of Extremadura (Spain), this study analyses the assessments of a group of students and a group of teachers of the use of teamwork activity in the acquisition of knowledge and generic competencies. The findings, both for students and teachers, lead to recommend that the centres quality committees advise the use of teamwork in subjects which do not yet apply this learning methodology.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125141499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurship Program at Secondary School","authors":"M. J. Madeira, A. Rocha","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH012","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is the analysis of the effect that the entrepreneurship activities have in the development of an entrepreneurial profile of the students of a secondary level and their future entrepreneurial intentions. To empirically test the formulated hypothesis, a questionnaire was developed. By the application of methods of factorial analysis and a logistic regression model, it was concluded that variables like the incentive given by school agents, the participation of students in extracurricular activities and the desire to continue studying, influenced the entrepreneurial intentions of the students. Concerning the entrepreneurial profile, it was concluded that the students who have higher capacity of creation and concretization of entrepreneurial projects and a winning will, have a higher propensity to create their own business. This research analysed the impact of entrepreneurship activities on the development of the secondary school students' entrepreneurial profile, and understand whether these same activities influence their future intentions.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126053612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Business Idea-Individual Dyad","authors":"O. Méndez","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH006","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship has been considered a significant factor for socio-economic growth and development, and there has been a significant growth in the education on entrepreneurship in the world. The present study provides the experiences of different actors on the implementation of a psychological assistance program to new entrepreneurs in a university business incubator as well as its impact on them. The findings suggest that this program, in its time the first or one of the first of its kind as far as the literature review suggested, had a positive impact, gives entrepreneurs a space to reflect, motivation and perseverance, allows them to see themselves as integral and thus help to improve the chances of success of the startup by learning key psychological entrepreneurial competencies.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133428427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurial Education for Immigrants a Tool for Local Development","authors":"Selma Mosquera, Patrícia Jardim da Palma","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter talks about the possible contribution that the entrepreneurial education for immigrants can give to local growth. So, the readers will be invited to reflect about the challenges that involves the immigrant entrepreneurship action and your relation with the local development. Next, they will think over the entrepreneurial education paper in this setting, and how your didactic-andragogical assumptions can improve their abilities and the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. So last, a project created by Alto Comissariado Para Migrações (ACM), in Portugal, called Promoção do Empreendedorismo Imigrante (PEI), is described that reinforces the crucial contribution that the entrepreneurial educations for immigrants can give to local development","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133977316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teresa Paiva, Maria Leopoldina Alves, Jorge Humberto Marinho Sampaio
{"title":"Poliempreende Project","authors":"Teresa Paiva, Maria Leopoldina Alves, Jorge Humberto Marinho Sampaio","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH009","url":null,"abstract":"The Portuguese polytechnic high education network has developed a reference project with an institutional cooperation and entrepreneurship education methodology of development and implementation, for more than 15 years now. The concern of promoting and empowering entrepreneurs as a response to the paradigm shift of “a job for life” gave form to the Poliempreende Project which is a teaching design method, enterprise-oriented, to promote and develop new business projects. The main goal is to present and demonstrate the impact of the Poliempreende project in the students and in their business creation process. In order to do that, the authors will follow a case study methodology to analyse how and why this entrepreneurship education methodology is implemented and how it has achieved success. This will be done by integrating the project within the European entrepreneurship education policies, showing how it addresses and follows the European guidelines for entrepreneurship competencies development, and supports innovation and business projects can be turned into new enterprises in a sustainable way.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133062717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programs","authors":"A. Daniel, Sara Figueiredo, M. Pita","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH015","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship is considered a key phenomenon today in economic and social development. Nevertheless, most start-ups fail a few years after being launched. In order to improve the success of start-ups, several initiatives, such as entrepreneurship accelerator programs, are being strongly supported both by public and private organizations. The underlying question is if those initiatives are really contributing for start-ups' success, and how. This exploratory study aims at understanding the impact that an accelerator program has on the different elements that in the literature were considered crucial for a company's success, mainly the founders' characteristics, strategy and resources.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121768409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurship Education With Preservice Teachers","authors":"Lina Fonseca","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH010","url":null,"abstract":"The theme of entrepreneurship has been pointed out a few years ago, by international institutions, as being essential to be integrated into the school, to empower future citizens to become agents of change and improvement of living conditions in their communities. Widely understood as the ability to turn ideas into action, their integration must be done early in school and requires a change in the learning environment. This should focus on the student who has been given an essential and active role in learning. The development of entrepreneurial skills, called soft skills, slow to develop and essential to every citizen, should be done as soon as possible. This chapter aims to disseminate a methodology of entrepreneurial education applied to children from 3 to 12 years old and exemplify with projects developed in kindergarten contexts.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122242108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Entrepreneurship and Innovative Education Matter to Increase Employability Skills?","authors":"E. T. Pereira, Madalena Villas-Boas, C. Rebelo","doi":"10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7675-4.CH013","url":null,"abstract":"The present study proposes a framework of key skills to improve the HEIs current curricula through entrepreneurship and innovative education. The approach is based on a questionnaire applied to key stakeholders, students (from economics, business and engineering subject field of studies) and academics, from five European countries. The results allow to identify the graduates' skills shortages and the best covered skills in current curricula. Those skills are in accordance with the 21st century skills and constitute the foundation of the proposed framework that suggests that this mix of skills should be integrated and implemented into the curricula degrees of HEIs, through a group of innovative and entrepreneurship education initiatives to promote graduates' employability.","PeriodicalId":222139,"journal":{"name":"Global Considerations in Entrepreneurship Education and Training","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114202890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}