This volume includes a series of papers which examine the contributions of entrepreneurship education on the … performance of graduates. Using survey data for 2,484 entrepreneurship and non-entrepreneurship graduates, the analysis indicates … that entrepreneurship education contributes to risk taking, the formation of new ventures, and firm growth. The second …

The performance of economies depends upon entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs identify new opportunities, implement new … institutional structure that supports entrepreneurship or of the economic and sociological factors that encourage entrepreneurial …, processes, and services and outlines policies for encouraging entrepreneurship. This collection of papers highlights the variety …

significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …