This chapter assesses the state of entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Europe …. Comparisons include the differences in definition between entrepreneurship and SMEs, multidisciplinary learning, academic and … business links, quality entrepreneurship curricula, and the role of entrepreneurship within the university. Europe has the …

The European Union suffers from an innovation deficit, which must be remedied if the EU is to improve the quality of … life of its citizens and remain competitive in the global marketplace. We explain why productive entrepreneurship is a way …

-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship relative to the U.S. Once we account for Europe's strong performance in technological innovation, an …We examine whether Europe has an “entrepreneurship deficit” compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small …

The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the … entrepreneurship will contribute towards ending the continent's economic malaise. In this article I argue that these expectations may … be disappointed because (i) entrepreneurship promotion is a last-resort policy, (ii) entrepreneurs are being …

interface of two well-established, but related fields — entrepreneurship and technological innovation. In this vein …Over the last two decades, the phenomenon of technology entrepreneurship has attracted the interest of researchers and … policy makers due to its significant impact upon economic progress. Several authors define technology entrepreneurship as the …

entrepreneurship gap. Using Oaxaca-type decomposition and its extensions on choice of weighting matrix for non-linear probability … entrepreneurship can be traced back to females owning smaller endowments than males. Empirical results also show differences in return …

This paper uses an Eclectic Framework explaining entrepreneurship incorporating different streams of literature and … spanning different disciplines. The Eclectic Framework integrates factors shaping the demand for entrepreneurship on the one … policy identifying the channels through which the demand or the supply of entrepreneurship can be shifted. In its empirical …

-based entrepreneurship within universities. Despite sharing similar historical backgrounds, economic conditions and cultural and social …