Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development: Volume 19 Issue 3

Enterprise and entrepreneurship in English higher education: 2010 and beyond

David Rae, Lynn Martin, Valerie Antcliff, Paul Hannon

This article aims to report the results of a complete survey of enterprise education in all higher education institutions (HEIs) in England, undertaken in 2010 by the Institute…

Examining competence factors that encourage innovative behaviour by European higher education graduate professionals

Ekaterina S. Bjornali, Liv Anne Støren

This paper aims to examine the effects of individual competencies and characteristics linked to educational programmes that contribute to the development of competencies conducive…

A model of entrepreneurial intention: An application of the psychological and behavioral approaches

João J. Ferreira, Mário L. Raposo, Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues, Anabela Dinis, Arminda do Paço

The field of entrepreneurship is dotted across different paradigms. Measuring entrepreneurial intention automatically needs to incorporate insights from the psychological approach…

Student intentions to become self‐employed: the Ukrainian context

Marina Z. Solesvik, Paul Westhead, Lars Kolvereid, Harry Matlay

This paper aims to explore whether an integrated conceptual model (ICM) relating to factors drawn from entrepreneurial event theory (EET) (i.e. perceived desirability and…

Could higher education programmes, culture and structure stifle the entrepreneurial intentions of students?

Panagiotis Piperopoulos

This paper aims to explore and analyse the impact of higher education programmes, structures and culture on students' entrepreneurship intentions and attitudes. It investigates…

Exploring entrepreneurship education within veterinary medicine: can it be taught?

Colette Henry, Lorna Treanor

This paper aims to explore business and, more specifically, entrepreneurship education within veterinary medicine and discuss the perceptions of veterinary students and veterinary…

The importance of education in the entrepreneurial process: a world view

Stephanie J. Arthur, Robert D. Hisrich, Ángel Cabrera

The aim of this study was to determine what facilitators and impediments to regional and global entrepreneurship exist, as identified by the 145 industry contacts globally…

Coaching the entrepreneur: features and success factors

Josée Audet, Paul Couteret

Entrepreneurial coaching appears to be a sufficiently customized way to help novice owner‐managers develop their managerial skills. However, its usefulness remains to be verified…

Preparing for an uncertain future: the enterprising PhD student

Jonathan Lean

The purpose of this paper is to investigate PhD student perceptions of the importance of enterprise skills and the extent to which they are currently being developed within a case…

Developing a behaviour‐centred model of entrepreneurial learning

Thomas Wing Yan Man

The main purpose of this study is to develop an empirically grounded model of entrepreneurial learning that focuses on learning behaviours.

Introduction

Harry Matlay, David Rae