Education + Training: Volume 53 Issue 5

Graduate entrepreneurship in the developing world: intentions, education and development

Ghulam Nabi, Francisco Liñán

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue by positioning and examining some of the key issues, tensions and challenges in graduate entrepreneurship in the…

Entrepreneurship perceptions and career intentions of international students

Todd Davey, Carolin Plewa, Miemie Struwig

This paper aims to identify the differences between African and European students with regard to their entrepreneurial intentions, attitudes towards entrepreneurship, role models…

Entrepreneurial intentions in developing and developed countries

Tatiana Iakovleva, Lars Kolvereid, Ute Stephan

This study proposes to use the Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict entrepreneurial intentions among students in five developing and nine developed countries. The purpose is to…

Construction of an instrument to measure social valuation in an emerging market context

Isaac Wasswa Katono

This study aims to construct a parsimonious instrument to measure social valuation in a collective setting using Uganda as an example.

The moderating role of higher education on entrepreneurship

Zeliha İlhan Ertuna, Eda Gurel

Entrepreneurial activities have a great impact on the economy and entrepreneurs are even more important for developing countries. Accordingly, the need for entrepreneurial…

The case for (social) entrepreneurship education in Egyptian universities

David A. Kirby, Nagwa Ibrahim

The purpose of this paper is to explore awareness of social entrepreneurship amongst Egyptian students and to determine what is needed to create more graduate social entrepreneurs.

Attitudes and motivations of Polish students towards entrepreneurial activity

Paul Jones, Christopher Miller, Amanda Jones, Gary Packham, David Pickernell, Przemyslaw Zbierowski

The Polish economy is continuing its expansion through the adoption of free market economics in the post‐communist era. To encourage this growth in a future where difficult global…

The journey to develop educated entrepreneurs: prospects and problems of Afghan businessmen

Ali Muhammad, Saeed Akbar, Murray Dalziel

This study seeks to examine self‐perceived entrepreneurial problems and prospects in a post‐war scenario. It aims to present a holistic and historical account of Afghan graduates…

Highly‐skilled Colombian immigrants in Spain: Do they have to return home to start up in business?

Francisco Javier Matiz Bulla, Esther Hormiga

The purpose of this paper is to understand why high‐skilled immigrants from a developing country (Colombia) are returning to their home country to create businesses instead of…

Knowledge creation and human capital for development: the role of graduate entrepreneurship

Jay Mitra, Y.A. Abubakar, M. Sagagi

Tackling structural and emergent problems in the labour market, valorising skilled human capital (HC) for opportunity creation, economic development and growth, are some of the…