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Entrepreneurial Passion in Entrepreneurship Education

Year: 2021

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: By interviewing alumni about their experiences of entrepreneurship education and post-graduation careers, this study explored how students can harness entrepreneurial passion in a venture creation programme. The findings emphasise the importance of learning ‘soft skills' in entrepreneurship education, as well as experiencing the ‘necessary evil' of failure and learning from failure in a safe environment. Most importantly, the chapter illustrates the connection between safety, action, emotion, and passion in a VCP. Lastly, this study highlights that harnessing obsessive passion into a sustainable form is an important yet difficult task. Passion changes over time, and VCP students harness this passion to achieve ‘sustainable obsessive and harmonious passion'. This study contributes to the literature on the development of entrepreneurial universities by focusing on the students and their entrepreneurial passion.

Source: Advances in higher education and professional development book series

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7456-0.ch005

Authors: Gunn-Berit Neergård, Lise Aaboen, Øystein Widding

Institution: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4200512323

FWCI: 6.19

Cites: 42

Cited by: 8

Related to: 10