IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/18157_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Measuring entrepreneurial impact through alumni impact surveys

In: A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Author

Listed:
  • Shiri Breznitz
  • Brendan Hills
  • Qiantao Zhang

Abstract

Universities are an essential part of the entrepreneurship and innovation system on both the local and global scale. As such, understanding the impact of university alumni is important. Historically, the great majority of alumni studies have focused on measuring engagement, competencies and alumni giving. This chapter highlights the distinctly new phenomenon of alumni impact surveys, which are mostly used by universities to address policy makers and future students. These new surveys do focus on entrepreneurship, but it has not been connected to the wider role of universities, nor to the social impact of alumni. In particular, the chapter provides an overview of the origin of alumni impact surveys, the reasons for and the process of survey implementations, and the results from the surveys in the form of both reports and academic papers. The chapter highlights the difficulties in translating these surveys into academic studies. It concludes with a discussion on the state of alumni impact surveys and the future of research in this field.

Suggested Citation

  • Shiri Breznitz & Brendan Hills & Qiantao Zhang, 2019. "Measuring entrepreneurial impact through alumni impact surveys," Chapters, in: David B. Audretsch & Erik E. Lehmann & Albert N. Link (ed.), A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, chapter 3, pages 30-39, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:18157_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788116008/9781788116008.00007.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    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:elg:eechap:18157_3. 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: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    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.