IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/jecxxx/v19y2011i02ns0218495811000738.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An "Activation" Process For Entrepreneurial Engineering Education: The Model And Application

Author

Listed:
  • GIANLUCA ELIA

    (Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy)

  • A. MARGHERITA

    (Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy)

  • G. SECUNDO

    (Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy)

  • K. MOUSTAGHFIR

    (Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco)

Abstract

The pervasiveness of scientific developments has raised the role of entrepreneurship as a driver of socio-economic value. Higher education institutions are thus asked to create entrepreneurial mindset and competencies with the purpose to make students people able to proactively identify opportunities and transform them in market solutions. In particular, engineering education programs can be of relevance to develop technology entrepreneurship competencies through hands-on and experiential approaches. In such vein, this paper proposes a model of entrepreneurship education as an "activation" process which uses four critical levers with the purpose to infuse the essence of entrepreneurship in tomorrow's engineering professionals. The application of the model is exemplified through the analysis of a research training program grounded in the aerospace domain. The key features of the initiative are discussed in the perspective of exploring new models of entrepreneurial engineering education.

Suggested Citation

  • Gianluca Elia & A. Margherita & G. Secundo & K. Moustaghfir, 2011. "An "Activation" Process For Entrepreneurial Engineering Education: The Model And Application," Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(02), pages 147-168.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jecxxx:v:19:y:2011:i:02:n:s0218495811000738
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218495811000738
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218495811000738
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0218495811000738?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Giustina Secundo & Valentina Ndou & Pasquale Del Vecchio, 2016. "Challenges for Instilling Entrepreneurial Mindset in Scientists and Engineers: What Works in European Universities?," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(05), pages 1-23, October.
    2. Gianluca Elia & Alessandro Margherita & Claudio Petti, 2016. "An Operational Model to Develop Technology Entrepreneurship “EGO-System”," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(05), pages 1-23, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:jecxxx:v:19:y:2011:i:02:n:s0218495811000738. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/jec/jec.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.