Does an Entrepreneurship Education Have Lasting Value? a Study of Careers of 4,000 Alumni
Year: 2011
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: We studied the influence of entrepreneurship education on intentions to become entrepreneurs and becoming full-time entrepreneurs with a sample of 3,775 Babson College alumni who graduated from 1985 to 2009. There was overwhelming evidence that taking two or more core entrepreneurship elective courses positively influenced students’ intention to become an entrepreneur and their becoming an actual entrepreneur both at the time of graduation and long afterward. Writing a student business plan also had a significant influence, but it was not as strong as taking two or more core courses.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Authors: Julian Lange, Edward Marram, Ajay Solai Jawahar, Wei Sean Yong, William Bygrave
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1557575767