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 …

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new … knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why … entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has emerged as a crucial source for comparative advantage, but …