Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Paul Benneworth
Author-Name-First: Paul
Author-Name-Last: Benneworth
Author-Name: Mike Osborne
Author-Name-First: Mike
Author-Name-Last: Osborne
Title: Understanding universities and entrepreneurship education
Abstract: Understanding the potential and dynamics of entrepreneurship and education requires better understanding of how universities function as knowledge communities, and the role of students in such milieu. This can reveal how universities’ teaching activities influence the development of students’ entrepreneurial orientations and competencies. This article argues that entrepreneurship education has not yet  fulfilled  its  potential partly because of a poor fit with other knowledge activities of universities. It proposes that a future research agenda for universities’ entrepreneurship education should focus more upon how entrepreneurship activities fit with universities’ core knowledge community activities. This would allow a coherent understanding to emerge of the potentials and limitations of universities’ contributions to the inculcation of entrepreneurial  attitudes.
Length: 26 pages
Creation-Date: 2015
File-URL: https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/14233878
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 201508
Keywords: entrepreneurship education, university institutional architecture, knowledge creation, communities of practice, innovation policy, university enterprise, university entrepreneurship
Handle: RePEc:chs:wpachs:201508