Changing Entrepreneurial Perceptions and Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies through Experiential Learning: Evidence from Entrepreneurship Education in Singapore's Tertiary Education Institutions
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: This paper examines whether the introduction of entrepreneurship education based on concepts of experiential learning into the university curriculum has had any positive effect on changing the entrepreneurial perceptions, intentions and competencies of tertiary education students. The paper uses Kolb’s model of experiential learning as a conceptual framework to interpret the actions taken by the Singapore universities in introducing various forms of entrepreneurship education schemes. Although it finds that there is evidence to support claims that entrepreneurship education based on experiential learning in undergraduate courses has had a positive effect on changing entrepreneurial perceptions and intentions among Singapore university students, the findings for entrepreneurial competencies are inconclusive as important aspects of tolerance of failure and opportunity recognition do not seem to have been positively affected.
Authors: Lip-Chai Seet, Pi‐Shen Seet
Institution: The University of Adelaide
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2227907629