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Do the approaches to entrepreneurship education matter in start-up intentions?

In: Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa - Conference Proceedings 2016

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  • Afriyie, Nina
  • Boohene, Rosemond

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Entrepreneurship education serves a conduit for new venture creation as it provides the knowledge and skills needed to increase the self-efficacy of individuals to start and run new businesses and to grow existing ones. This study, therefore, sought to assess the relationship between the approaches to the teaching of entrepreneur-ship and entrepreneurial intention on a cohort of 292 respondents consisting of students who have studied entrepreneurship in three selected Universities. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain data randomly from students. The canonical correlation results indicate that education for and through entrepreneurship is the best approach to promoting entrepreneurial intensity among University students, if the aim of teaching entrepreneur-ship is to promote start-up activities. The findings provide valuable insights for institutions of higher learning and policy makers in Ghana with respect to the appropriate methodologies to be adopted in the teaching of entrepreneurship in our universities.

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  • Afriyie, Nina & Boohene, Rosemond, 2017. "Do the approaches to entrepreneurship education matter in start-up intentions?," Proceedings Paper, in: Bode, Jürgen & Freitag, Christine (ed.), Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa - Conference Proceedings 2016, volume 5, pages 85-104, Universities Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa International Conference.
    • Handle: RePEc:sau:ueedcc:05:085-104
    DOI: 10.18418/978-3-96043-042-
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    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups

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