Education + Training: Volume 50 Issue 7

Graduate entrepreneurship: intentions, education and training

Ghulam Nabi, Rick Holden

The paper's purpose is to present an introduction to the special issue is that positions and explores some of issues and challenges in the field of graduate entrepreneurship.

An examination of tertiary students' desire to found an enterprise

Naomi Birdthistle

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the paper aims to identify and explain the behaviour and intentions of students in their decision to start entrepreneurial activities…

Examining the entrepreneurial attitudes of US business students

Michael L. Harris, Shanan G. Gibson

This paper aims to examine the entrepreneurial attitudes of undergraduate students enrolled in the Small Business Institute^® (SBI) program at multiple universities in the USA…

The new generation: characteristics and motivations of BME graduate entrepreneurs

Javed G. Hussain, Jonathan M. Scott, Paul D. Hannon

The purpose of this paper is to profile the characteristics and entrepreneurial motivations of graduate entrepreneurs from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.

Student attitudes towards enterprise education in Poland: a positive impact

Paul Jones, Amanda Jones, Gary Packham, Christopher Miller

This paper aims to appraise the delivery of an enterprise education course to a cohort of Polish students evaluating its impact in encouraging entrepreneurial activity. The Polish…

Embedding enterprise in science and engineering departments

Robert D. Handscombe, Elena Rodriguez‐Falcon, Eann A. Patterson

This paper aims to focus on the attempts to implement the challenges of teaching enterprise to science and engineering students by the embedding approach chosen by the White Rose…

Graduate entrepreneurship: more than child's play

Cecilia Hegarty, Colin Jones

With the unbridled demand for entrepreneurship in higher education, the purpose of this paper is to identify how pedagogy can inhibit students in making the transition to graduate…