Education + Training: Volume 53 Issue 8/9

The role of creativity in opportunity search and business idea creation

Jarna Heinonen, Ulla Hytti, Pekka Stenholm

This paper aims to investigate the relationships between student creativity, various opportunity search strategies, and the viability of business ideas developed during an…

The assessment of enterprise education in the secondary education sector: A new approach?

Matthew C. Draycott, David Rae, Katie Vause

Although the assessment of enterprise education activities has been widely highlighted as a key area of concern, it continues to be under represented in the literature. Questions…

Understanding the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship education: going beyond Gartner

Colin Jones, Harry Matlay

This paper seeks to draw attention to the importance of appreciating and using ever‐present diversity to achieve increased legitimacy for entrepreneurship education. As such, it…

“Making an impact”: a profile of a business planning competition in a university

Amanda Jones, Paul Jones

This paper aims to explore the issues experienced in the delivery of a business challenge to a cohort of business undergraduate students at the University of Glamorgan. The…

Graduate entrepreneurs: intentions, barriers and solutions

Kelly Smith, Martin Beasley

This paper aims to investigate the factors that influenced seven graduates in the creative and digital industries to start their own businesses in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK �…

Re‐storying an entrepreneurial identity: education, experience and self‐narrative

Susan S. Harmeling

This paper aims to explore the ways in which entrepreneurship education may serve as an identity workspace.

Technology enhanced learning and plagiarism in entrepreneurship education

Angelica Risquez, Michele O'Dwyer, Ann Ledwith

This paper seeks to explore the relationship between entrepreneurship students' ethical views on plagiarism, their self reported engagement in plagiarism and their participation…

Leading an entrepreneurial workforce: development or decline?

Paul Clargo, Richard Tunstall

This paper analyses entrepreneurial activity within existing organisations. Research tends to limit entrepreneurial behaviour to owner‐managers, corporate senior and middle…

Conceptual and contextual aspects of entrepreneurship education

Harry Matlay