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Chavda, Ankur. "Does health insurance matter for entrepreneurship?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104260.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-59).
We study the effect of improved access to health insurance on entrepreneurial rates across industries. We use the 2006 reform of the Massachusetts health care market as our shock. In contrast to previous research, we use our shock to test which kinds of startups were more likely to be created in addition to whether individuals became more likely to become entrepreneurs. We develop a theoretical model uses institutional heterogeneity to make predictions on how the reform should affect the distribution of entrepreneurs across industries. We see evidence that although non-profit entrepreneurship was significantly affected, overall entrepreneurship is constrained by factors other than access to health care.
by Ankur Chavda.
S.M. in Management Research
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Carter, Maureen. "The connecting school : a qualitative evaluation of intranet development and the role of the school librarian in Scottish secondary schools." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2004. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7301.
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This study investigates the development of intranets in Scottish secondary schools and within that development the role of the school librarian. There is little written on the development of intranets in schools. There has been a lack of recent research on the role of the school librarian in the UK, and in particular there have been no studies investigating their involvement in ICT. This research adopted an interactionist approach which has been used in studying the social impact of computing (see Hiltz 1992). A grounded methodology has produced original substantive theory. Methods include a questionnaire to Scottish education authorities and semi-structured interviews with key individuals at authority level and in fifteen Scottish secondary schools. Schools which have successfully developed their own intranets were found to have a supportive culture which enabled key individuals to work on the intranet and develop content relevant to the internal curricular needs and ethos of the school. Examples of materials on the intranet was important in encouraging further content through a snowball effect. The key individuals were defined as activators (people with the technical skills to create content), mediators (people willing to encourage, provide ideas and examples) and to a lesser extent gatherers (who collected content from school staff). A predictive model for intranet development has been produced based on these findings. There appears to be flexibility within the role of the school librarian for individuals to take on a variety of roles. This research on intranet development found that the librarians who qualified within the last five years focussed on the intranet as a way of developing and promoting their role. Their involvement with the intranet has put school librarians in the role of intranet builder, intranet manager and content creators. Most significantly they have operated as activators and mediators in intranet development. Some librarians have broadened into network administration roles. This is increasing the difference between recently qualified librarians and longer serving school librarians. However it was found that the more recent graduates involvement with these more "technical" roles is not distancing them from their traditional areas of work. There is evidence that through these new roles, close curriculum cooperation has been achieved.
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Wang, Yanbo Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Riding the dragon : entrepreneurship under market transition." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58171.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
This dissertation focuses on three of the most important questions in entrepreneurship study, namely venture financing, corporate strategy and firm performance. The main thrust of the dissertation is to elaborate the mechanisms through which institutional and social factors impact entrepreneurial activities in developing countries. The first essay, "Evaluation or Attention", examines the causal mechanisms of social ties in venture financing. A staged model of network effects is developed, showing that the prior literature has drawn erroneous conclusions about the role of social ties as they conflate VC's evaluation of entrepreneurs with the necessary preceding act of becoming aware of them. The second essay, coauthored with Yasheng Huang, examines the institutional driver of local entrepreneur's foreign direct investment (FDI) seeking behavior. We find that the Chinese economic system has a political pecking order in which private enterprises are located at the bottom. FDI-seeking behavior, while diluting local entrepreneurs' ownership controls, helps change their firms' political status to transcend institutional constraints. The third essay examines the role of bureaucratic legacy upon entrepreneurial performance. I find that Chinese entrepreneurs with work experiences in the public sector have better access to state controlled resources but low efficiency in utilizing these resources. This pattern reflects that entrepreneurs are organizational products: individuals' past work experiences shape both their positions within the social structure and the organizational blueprints that they transfer to new ventures.
by Yanbo Wang.
Ph.D.
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Greenberg, Jason Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Three essays on social networks and entrepreneurship." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57973.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2009.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
This thesis explores in three essays if, how, and why social relationships have a bearing on outcomes in the entrepreneurial process. The first essay attempts to determine which mechanism drives the children of business owners to expect to become and actually enter business ownership themselves. Results are inconsistent with arguments asserting that the intergenerational correlation is a result of: the transmission of human capital or financial capital; the expectation of inheriting a business; a heightened awareness of the viability of business ownership; or preferences for having lots of money. Findings are consistent with the notion that the intergenerational correlation in business ownership is a result of shared preferences/traits such as overconfidence. Social capital is a multifaceted concept. However, a disproportionate share of network research has been dedicated to the theorization and transmission of one form of social capital information. Indeed, network structure is generally considered a proxy for information flow. This assumption is often reasonable. In important contexts of social and economic interest it can, however, be misleading. This essay draws attention to the specific "substances of advantage" that flow to different types of actors across varied dyadic ties. Two concepts-(non)rivalry and (non)excludability-are introduced to explain why certain substances of advantage are (not) transmitted across different types of dyadic ties to actors with distinct categorical characteristics.
(cont.) Empirical analyses of representative data of individuals in the process of founding a business are employed to demonstrate the value of this framework. In one of the most influential arguments in organization sociology Arthur Stinchcombe argued that new as opposed to old organizations are more likely to die because of a "liability of newness." The thesis writ large has received empirical support. Stinchcombe actually identified four mechanisms that individually and collectively compose the liability. One of the liabilities he identified specifically argued that new organizations are more likely to die because they must rely upon relations among strangers. On the other hand, research suggests that strangers are particularly well suited to act as bridging ties, which afford advantages in the startup process by offering access to information about market opportunities, novel resources, and information. This social structural mechanism is consistent with Schumpeter's view of entrepreneurship as novel combination. This third essay assesses whether including strangers on a founding team or as employees is net positive or negative.
by Jason Greenberg.
Ph.D.
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Casteau, Alexandre. "Leveraging entrepreneurship ecosystems in post-conflict Colombia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104543.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 42).
This thesis explores the specificity of the Colombian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Building on and extending an entrepreneurial research methodology developed by the World Economic Forum, this thesis attempts to identify how the Colombian entrepreneurship ecosystem compares to others around the globe and to understand which factors are most relevant to its success. Combining insights from the literature, a quantitative analysis and multiple interviews, this study finds that the four factors with biggest potential for high positive impact on the performance outcomes of entrepreneurs in Colombia are: Funding & Finance, Accessible Markets, Regulatory Framework & Infrastructure and Cultural Support. Furthermore, the study shows that the high relevance of the latter two factors constitute a "Colombian specificity". This thesis contributes to the research by suggesting the most relevant factors to the long-term success of the Colombian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Keywords: entrepreneurship, ecosystem, success factors, Colombia.
by Alexandre Casteau.
S.M. in Management Studies
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Fehder, Daniel Colin. "Essays on the evaluation of entrepreneurship programs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105082.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
This dissertation consists of three essays studying the impact of a relatively recent type of entrepreneurship program (startup accelerators) on the performance of firms, regions, and the selection of early-stage projects in the economy. The first essay explores the impact of startup accelerators on early-stage entrepreneurial activity in their region by exploring the effects of accelerators on the availability and provision of seed and early stage venture capital funding in the local region. The second essay explores the relationship between a startup's founding region, accelerator admission and startup performance. Using data from a leading startup accelerator, I use a fuzzy regression discontinuity framework to evaluate both the overall impact of the program on its portfolio of startups and its heterogeneity based on a startup's founding region characteristics. Startups birthed in neighborhoods with higher levels of entrepreneurial resources derive a larger benefit from admission to MassChallenge, suggesting that founding regions shape a startup's performance and that accelerators change the way in which startup founders are able to access and leverage resources in their home region. The third essay explores the selection mechanisms inside an accelerator program, measuring how variation in the institutional arrangements used in the selection of ideas and ventures impacts how a fixed set of judges evaluate a fixed set of businesses opportunities. We find strong differences in how ideas are evaluated depending on the evaluation scheme. Taken together these essays demonstrate that startup programs impact the growth of new firms through the performance of individual portfolio firms, fostering stronger ecosystems, and shifting which firms are encouraged to grow through their selection procedures.
by Daniel Colin Fehder.
1. Essays in on the Evaluation of Entrepreneurship Programs: Introduction and Overview -- 2. Accelerators and the Regional Supply of Venture Capital Investment -- 3. Startup Accelerators and Ecosystems: Complements or Substitutes? -- 4. Evaluation of Early-Stage Ventures: Bias across Different Evaluation Regimes.
Ph. D.
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Alexander, Amanda M. B. A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Entrepreneurship in South Africa : improving access to finance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65776.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-83).
For a rapidly developing country, South Africa has relatively very low levels of entrepreneurship. This thesis will investigate the reasons for the anemic number of new ventures and, most specifically, tries to address one of the biggest obstacles South African entrepreneurs face: limited access to capital. I have collected data from 47 South African entrepreneurs through questionnaires to survey their level of access to capital, their awareness of the resources that are available to them and to identify which organizations are the most helpful to them in terms of providing educational and financial support. Furthermore, I solicited their opinions on the future of entrepreneurship in their country and tested it against both conventional wisdom and academic hypotheses. I have compared what literature says is happening with what seems to be actually occurring. The findings are that, like many other developed and developing nations, South Africa struggles to provide entrepreneurs with clear paths to capital. Entrepreneurs are also unsure of how to approach venture capitalists and other organizations for funding so education remains a key component to increasing the level of entrepreneurship. There are encouraging signs such as the increase in local organizations aimed at the rural population and women which, studies have shown, are key demographics to eradicate poverty through building new businesses. Several recommendations are outlined, mainly the enhancement of the role of government in fostering the growth of entrepreneurship through programs that are efficient and that attract international investors.
by Amanda Alexander.
M.B.A.
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Kim, Hyejun. "Essays on economic sociology of innovation and entrepreneurship." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123583.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
This dissertation considers how innovation and entrepreneurship are developed, encouraged, and evaluated with the theoretical lens of economic sociology. The first chapter investigates who becomes an entrepreneur among the pool of general consumers. The process by which individuals become entrepreneurs is often described as a decisive moment of transition, yet it necessarily involves a series of smaller steps. By breaking down the transition stages of knitting hobbyists' transition to producers who sell their original design patterns, the study examines the distinctive characteristics that affect users' decision to (a) create new products and (b) commercialize them. The second chapter examines the role of social capital in revealing and encouraging entrepreneurship. To the question of how social capital benefits innovation and entrepreneurship, existing literature has provided one dominant answer: access to information and resources.
In this study, I suggest an alternative mechanism how social capital benefits an individual's entrepreneurial transition: social networks provide potential entrepreneurs self-confidence on the promise of their new ideas and encourages their entry into the market. Using a matched sample of potential innovators, I show that an individual's participation in a local group encourages her transition to an entrepreneur, especially for those who already have the necessary skills for the transition. The empirical analysis resonates with qualitative evidence that hobbyists make the transition to entrepreneurs when encouraged by their friends. The third chapter (co-authored with Pierre Azoulay and Ezra Zuckerman) considers commitment-based typecasting among knit designers. We show that "commitment-based typecasting" has two characteristic features: asymmetry in audience valuation and retrospective reevaluation.
When a novice performer experiences an "identity shock" that suggests that she is more committed to the audience for one category than another, "betrayed" audience tends to regard her as having always been less committed to the rival audience/category. We test this theory in the domain of knitting, where there is a divide between avant-garde knitters and traditional knitters, and we show that when a novice knit designer is first published in the publication associated with one category, this elicits a retrospective devaluation of her prior work by the audience of the opposing category.
by Hyejun Kim.
Chapter 1. Sharing or Selling: Multiple Stages of Entrepreneurial Transitions in the Hobbyist Community -- Chapter 2. Knitting Community: The Role of Social Capital in Revealing and Encouraging Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 3. Never Really One of Us: Commitment-based Typecasting among Knit Designers.
Ph. D.
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
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Barnard, Juanita Marlyn. "An assessment of entrepreneurial intentions of secondary school learners in selected areas / J.M. Barnard." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8781.
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This study highlights the need for a youth entrepreneurship education program of value in South African secondary schools. It examines the enterprising tendencies of grade 12 learners in 10 secondary schools in the Lejweleputswa District of the Free State province, South Africa, using the General Enterprising Tendency (GET) test.
An investigation into the current status of entrepreneurship in South Africa revealed that there is a lack of entrepreneurs and not enough people who have the orientation and skills to create new businesses. This leads to a situation where the South African economy performs poorly and the recent financial crisis exuberated South Africa’s challenges in terms of poverty, unemployment and income inequality. In addition, youth unemployment has worsened as a result of the recession, because the youth lack the needed qualifications, experience and skills to compete for the few job opportunities in the labour market. Entrepreneurship and innovation are widely seen as key sources of renewed economic growth, creating jobs and advancing human welfare.
This study shows that the South African youth has a positive enterprising tendency. The ‘General Enterprising Tendency Questionnaire’, completed by 530 grade 12 learners was evaluated and learners scored within the average score, although at the lower end of the suggested average. When the questionnaire’s constructs are evaluated, learners scored below the suggested average score on ‘need for achievement’, ‘need for autonomy’, ‘creative tendency’ and ‘moderate/calculated risks’, but above the suggested average for ‘drive and determination’, but it can be conclude that learners shows a tendency to be entrepreneurial.
However, the study suggests that grade 12 learners in the Lejweleputswa sample have overrated expectations on the ‘drive and determination construct’. It appears that they do not have the propensity to be creative and have a low drive to be autonomous. The study also reveals that there are no practical significant differences between the mean values for the demographic variables school, age, gender, home language and ethnic group regarding the measured constructs.
Major shortfalls in the current education system are highlighted, including teachers with no previous knowledge of commercial subjects that are forced to teach entrepreneurship, most schools do not implement Economic and Management Science (EMS) as learning area and as from 2013, EMS will only be introduced to the curriculum in the Senior phase (grade 7 to 9). In addition, learners are not motivated to be creators of jobs, but to rather seek employment.
The study concludes that public schools in South Africa do not have the capacity to implement a successful program of youth entrepreneurship education. The involvement of Government, Department of Education, schools, teachers, parents, learners, entrepreneurs and organised business is needed to promote youth entrepreneurship in South Africa. The study expands on recommendations and presents a national strategy to enhance youth entrepreneurship in South African schools, but concludes that future research is needed.Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013
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Chan, Yuk-che. "A case study of the significance of studying entrepreneurship education in an institute for secondary five graduates." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35320060.
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Guzmán, Jorge (Jorge Arturo). "Startups Mexicanas : a guide to software entrepreneurship in Mexico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65781.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2011."May 20th 2011." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-64).
This document investigates the possibilities of software entrepreneurship in developing economies, particularly Mexico, from an entrepreneur's perspective. It includes a broad analysis of the entrepreneurial environment in Mexico - venture capital, talent, regulation and market, in which it also touches on some topics that are relevant to the country today, like its growing violence trend. After creating a picture of the current environment in the first chapter, the second chapter investigates three different business models to create globally successful startups from Mexico. The first one of these models considers incubating a company in Mexico and then moving that company into the United States. The second one talks about ways in which Mexican companies can be created with the intention of selling software in the American market from their first day. Finally, the third one investigates going for the software market in emerging economies rather than the American market. The chapter closes with a proposed model to evaluate each opportunity, using as a base Michael Cusumano's eight point framework from his book The Business of Software. The third and final chapter presents three case examples of software business in Mexico that have had different levels of success, followed by some analysis. The businesses considered where two very successful ones, JackBe and Metroscubicos and one that had a lot of promise but could not materialize, Nibbo Studios. The document's conclusion contains two lists of ideas for entrepreneurs to keep in mind. One called "Seven myths and realities of Mexican software entrepreneurship" tries to paint the real picture of Mexico's entrepreneurial environment, and the second one, named "Eight principles for entrepreneurs creating a Mexican software startup" provides guidance for entrepreneurs creating new companies.
by Jorge Guzmán.
M.B.A.
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Tallapureddy, Anish R. "A study of corporate entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91070.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-73).
The number of semiconductor companies receiving venture funding has been decreasing through-out the last decade. The economics of manufacturing semiconductors do not offer an attractive risk-reward profile to the traditional VC model of investing. Moreover, fewer significant positive funding outcomes have further pushed VCs away from this space. Stagnant in-house R&D, dying start-up ecosystem have led the large corporations to consider corporate entrepreneurship to boost the innovation possibilities. In the past 20 years, many large semiconductor corporations have established corporate venture capital units and other initiatives to foster innovation and growth, while putting idle cash on the balance sheet to good use. However, corporate entrepreneurship has seen a mediocre performance with many initiatives not yielding the desired success. This thesis focuses on Corporate Entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) in the Semiconductor industry. Primarily relying on interviews and secondary research, it attempts to study some of the more successful CVCs in the industry, and understand, the key traits that have made them successful, and how they tackle the challenges facing the industry.
by Anish R. Tallapureddy.
S.M. in Management Studies
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Qumza, Thabang Vuyo. "Barriers to entrepreneurship: assessing NMBM school leavers for business enterprise." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011804.
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In plight of the country‟s high unemployment, poverty, and income inequalities, there is an urgent need to address these issues by converging toward entrepreneurship. World-wide, it is acknowledged by both government and academia that entrepreneurship soothes and remedies socio-economic ills. It creates employment, wealth, alleviates poverty, increases tax base, balances income disparities and accomplishes social stability. With the high youth (18-34 year age) unemployment looming at 73 percent and a low South African total entrepreneurship rate at 8.9 percent; this study attempts to investigate the barriers that hinder school leavers from engaging in entrepreneurship. The research investigates critical entrepreneurial factors including entrepreneurial character and behaviour, entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, managerial knowledge and skills, knowledge on legal aspects of a business, sourcing of finances, and entrepreneurial background and orientation. The primary objective was met through the investigation of the secondary objectives. This was accomplished through a questionnaire survey, composed with multiple choice questions and closed questions measured on a Likert scale. The questionnaire was constructed based on the literature reviewed from various sources including books, dissertations, journals, government reports, newspapers, magazines, internet, television and radio broadcasts (interviews and news). The study discovers that learners are inhibited by various factors from engaging into business venturing. The list of barriers identified was: A discouraging entrepreneurial background (heritage) – parents had low levels of education and were not entrepreneurial, Weak entrepreneurial character and behaviour, Lack of entrepreneurial exposure and work experience, Learners lack financial skills and computer skills, Families lack savings to financially support their business start-ups, Limited knowledge on the legal aspects regulating a business, Limited knowledge on sourcing finances (angel and venture capital investors).
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Teran, Marco (Marco A. Teran Aguilar). "Corporate Entrepreneurship programs : practices and their implications in developing economies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73416.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-87).
Corporate Entrepreneurship is driven by external demands and internal leadership. However, this process is difficult to implement in firms because it often conflicts with the core of corporate activities and the accumulated experience of the organization is insufficient to provide proper guidance for managers. On the other hand, currently, the knowledge base in this area is incomplete and fragmented. It lacks a coherent structure that would allow organizations to achieve productive outcomes. Therefore, developing an integrated perspective to support firms in installing a corporate entrepreneurship structure and, at the same time, develop managers for this task can be an useful topic from the point of view of both established and emerging organizations. The research question is can we develop a structure with key elements to help managers in the development of corporate entrepreneurship and how to address it in a practical way to install in Latin American countries? To accomplish it, the methodology considers the analysis based on scientific publications and technical books, along with a complementary research through personal interviews and study cases of large corporations and Chilean companies. The thesis delivers key elements, such as program structures, processes, and leadership. The main lesson is that these programs could be both disciplined and flexible. "Develop innovation with framework and consistency" is strongly recommended. A second one is that the alignment with the corporate strategy or basic guidelines is a must for these kinds of programs. Thirdly, the support of top management is crucial, and the development of initiatives for changing top and middle manager mindsets. Finally, companies should seek a balance with innovation portfolio (inorganic, radical and incremental), knowledge management, and networking initiatives (open, private).
by Marco Teran.
S.M.
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Kounelaki, Styliani. "Headquarters on campus : student entrepreneurship and the ambivalence of incubation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82292.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210).
Entrepreneurship increasingly takes place in universities, by faculty and students. Whereas the entrepreneurial pursuits of faculty have received significant scholarly attention, those of students have been largely neglected. Our knowledge of students' endeavors is limited to their entrepreneurial performances as alumni. What about their pursuits while still in school? I study student entrepreneurship in the context of student clubs at MIT. As a pioneer in the integration of entrepreneurship in higher education, MIT is a particularly opportune research setting for the study of student entrepreneurship. I discuss the entrepreneurial infrastructure at MIT, the MIT entrepreneurial ecosystem, and introduce student clubs as one of its components. My study focuses on a growing category of clubs that I call venture clubs for their resemblance to entrepreneurial ventures. I describe their characteristics, namely, size, activities, and plans for future growth and, most importantly, funding that primarily sets them apart from what I call traditional clubs. A crucial distinction is that venture clubs are, for the most part, ineligible for funds dedicated to student clubs; rather, they are funded by a variety of MIT centers and programs (e.g. the Public Service Center, MISTI, and the Legatum Center). I discuss the development of the latter sources of funding over the last twenty or so years amidst ambivalent views expressed by representatives of the MIT administration and student government over the relative value venture clubs have for the MIT community. Overall, the support, both monetary and non-monetary, provided to venture clubs signifies openness by the MIT administration and student government to the incubation of student ventures. Drawing from the MIT case, we can better understand the specifics of student entrepreneurship in the context of clubs as well as the complexities it introduces to the administration of institutions of higher education.
by Styliani (Stella) Kounelaki.
Ph.D.
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Furst, Michael R. "An exploration of corporate entrepreneurship : venturing signatures and their underlying dynamics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32116.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2005.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-135).
The primary goal of this work is to broadly explore the factors influencing corporate entrepreneurship and to examine how its many elements can be linked together. A broad reading of the published literature on corporate entrepreneurship provides numerous frameworks and recommendations. When gathered together many of the recommendations are inconsistent or conflict with one another. The concept of a "venture signature" which evolves into a detailed look at the underlying dynamics of venturing is proposed as a way to examine corporate entrepreneurship and better identify critical influencing factors. This work consists of an extensive review of published material which forms the basis of a set of recommendations, trade-offs, and dynamics from which a "venture signature" is created. This is followed by a series of interviews with personnel from eight corporations with venturing histories that were both successful and mixed (some successes and some failures). The venture signatures for each are constructed and then compared and contrasted element by element. Key lessons and advice from the interviews are captured as part of this analysis.
(cont.) The recommendations, trade-offs, and dynamics from the literature review are combined with the interviews and the venture signatures for the eight companies. These results show that an appropriate high-level model for corporate entrepreneurship should be a dynamic one. Discussion of what a dynamic venture signature would look like and several of the dynamics of corporate entrepreneurship are developed and explained in detail. A set of "must-haves" are separated from the "choices" available to corporate entrepreneurs. A "top ten" list of organizational dynamics that affect corporate entrepreneurship is proposed for consideration when making those choices. Finally, summary findings, four questions every corporate entrepreneur should know the answers to, and next steps are provided.
by Michale R. Furst.
S.M.
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Canales, Rodrigo (Rodrigo J. ). "From ideals to institutions : institutional entrepreneurship in Mexican small business finance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44810.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2008."June 2008."
Includes bibliographical references.
Through a combination of in-depth research and unique loan-level data, this dissertation explores the mechanisms of intentional institutional change. It argues that current accounts of institutions and institutional change require but do not provide a systematic understanding of the role of individuals in processes of change. It then uses two in-depth case studies to explore the mechanisms through which individuals can initiate institutional change. One case is the activation of the small business credit market in Mexico. The second is the expansion of micro credit in the country. Through these cases, the dissertation proposes that, contrary to conventional thinking, institutional change is not rare because institutional entrepreneurs are scarce. In fact, they are quite prevalent. Rather, what is scarce is the required combination of an opportunity for change, individuals who can recognize this opportunity, have the capabilities and skills to pursue it, and are situated in the right structural position to drive a change process. It further argues that successful institutional entrepreneurs are usually situated in positions of middle management, which provide the right balance between a motivation to experiment, access to sufficient resources, and discretion to diverge from norms. Additionally, institutional entrepreneurs tend to have mixed backgrounds with diverse professional trajectories, which allow them to detect opportunities, cross borders, and learn the different languages required to brokerage experimental efforts.
by Rodrigo Canales.
Ph.D.
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Keren-Moskovitz, Ruty. "The nature of the teachers' entrepreneurship in Israeli junior high school." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420845.
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Black, Vicky K. "Graduates perceived effectiveness of an Ohio vocational school entrepreneurship education program /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu14879292307428.
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Disi, David Alan. "Education for Sustainable Development| Business School Preparation of Student Social Entrepreneurs." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10976701.
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The research examines the state of social entrepreneurship curricula, that is, programs that combine education for sustainable development and traditional business entrepreneurialism instruction, at leading business school MBA programs in the United States. The research seeks to contribute to understandings of how sustainable development and entrepreneurial curriculum can be best integrated to enhance the training of social, or sustainable development, entrepreneurs. The research shows how sustainability leadership theories have become increasingly important to businesses and their corporate strategies, and then focuses specifically on entrepreneurial ventures to determine if any models of social enterprise education have been devised by experts in the fields of business, entrepreneurship, or sustainability. This research then shows that theories that incorporate sustainable development principles into basic business and entrepreneurial theory do exist. The field research then examines the presence of these social entrepreneurship-related training and resources in MBA curricula and shows that there is still an absence of comprehensive curricula that incorporate sustainability leadership into university-level coursework on entrepreneurship and business. The second part of the field research synthesizes the feedback of social enterprise practitioners, i.e. individuals with an MBA from a top-rated school are involved in the creation and running of social enterprise, on the efficacy of this training offered and at top-rated MBA programs and on the effectiveness of the current social enterprise curricula and how to further develop social enterprise training in these top-rated MBA programs and also in other MBA programs.
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Thoka, Betlehema Japhter. "An assessment of entrepreneurial potential amongst grade nine learners in the Zebediela area of the Limpopo Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/893.
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Thesis (MBA.) --University of Limpopo, 2006This study focused on finding out whether or not the grade nine learners in the Zebediela area displayed an entrepreneurial potential. The main purpose was that those learners with entrepreneurial potential would be considered for appropriate training so that at the end they would contribute positively towards the economic development and growth of the community, province and country. The population consisted of 2 693 learners from 35 secondary schools in the Zebediela area. The sample of 45 respondents (learners) from a total of 658 grade nine learners was drawn from nine secondary schools. The respondents filled in the General Enterprising Tendencies (GET) questionnaire each (to assess five elements such as the need for achievement, the need for autonomy, a creative tendency, moderate risk-taking , as well as drive and determination) and also took part in a group and structured interview. This study discovered that the respondents indeed showed the entrepreneurial potential and therefore, the strategies were recommended in the last chapter in order to nurture this potential.
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Lane, Marcie Lorin. "Securing supplemental revenue in private elementary school: A case study of one Jewish community day school." Scholarly Commons, 2010. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/110.
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Private schools often face a gap between their tuition income and the cost of the educational program. Private school administrators, tasked with balancing the school budget, seek to fill this gap through the acquisition of supplemental revenue. Private school administrators have often reported feeling unprepared for the unique responsibilities of the position. In addition, both individual and organizational donors have been noted to assert influence on educational programs. This study adds to the literature specific to supplemental revenue practices for elementary private schools and was influenced by the field of social entrepreneurship. A qualitative case study approach was used. Through purposeful sampling, a private school site was selected in California with fewer than 200 elementary students, evidence of successful fundraising, and tuition under $10,000. The chosen site was a Jewish community day school operating a program for infants through sixth graders. It was the only Jewish school in the county and adjacent areas. Data was collected from ten participant interviews, multiple documents, the school website, and observations. Data components were coded for themes, and a constant comparative method of analysis was applied. The data revealed five themes: (a) systems, (b) purposes of fundraising, (c) constraints on supplemental revenue, (d) operational concerns, and (e) relationships. Thirteen conclusions were drawn from the study. Unanticipated elements included a culture of student fundraising for charity, the coexistence of separate fundraising arms within the school, restrictions religion brought to supplemental revenue efforts, the role tuition discounts played in creating the schools price-cost gap, and differences in donor motivation behind monument building and annual operational support. Recommendations were made for both practitioners and researchers, including the illustration of applying social entrepreneurship to private schools.
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Maibauer, Nathalie. "Educational entrepreneurship Schule als pädagogisch-unternehmerische Aufgabe unter Berücksichtigung des Charter-School-Modells /." Karlsruhe : Univ.-Verl. Karlsruhe, 2006. http://www.uvka.de/univerlag/volltexte/2006/161/.
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Maibauer, Nathalie. "Educational entrepreneurship Schule als pädagogisch-unternehmerische Aufgabe unter Berücksichtigung des Charter-School-Modells." Karlsruhe Univ.-Verl. Karlsruhe, 2005. http://www.uvka.de/univerlag/volltexte/2006/161/.
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Axelsson, Karin. "Entrepreneurship in a School Setting : Introducing a Business Concept in a Public Context." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Innovation och produktrealisering, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-35234.
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Entrepreneurship has during the last decades gained an immense interest in academia, politics and practice. It is argued from politics that more entrepreneurs are necessary for the economic development. In addition, nowadays entrepreneurship is also perceived as a solution to social and societal challenges. This drives a need for entrepreneurial people everywhere in society who can cope with the inconstant and uncertain world of today. As a consequence, there are around the world numerous educational initiatives trying to inspire and fuel an entrepreneurial mind-set. Here, educations of all kind become relevant contexts since they provide an opportunity to affect children, youth’s and adult’s interest and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, and as such give a possibility to reach a vast number of people. Sweden is no exception, and in 2009 the Swedish Government launched a ‘Strategy for entrepreneurship in the field of education’ in which entrepreneurship is said to run like a common thread throughout education. The main focus is that self-employment is to become as natural as being an employee. As such the Government took an active stand for implementing entrepreneurship in the school setting on a broad front, from preschool to adult education. This development can be seen as part of New Public Management; a development where concepts from the private sector are lent and transferred to the public sector. Thus, when introducing entrepreneurship in the Swedish educational system, this at the same time means introducing a traditional business concept in a public setting. Therefore, the overall aim of this thesis is to increase knowledge of and insights on how a business concept – entrepreneurship – is operationalised and constructed in a public setting. When placing entrepreneurship in new societal contexts other questions arise and complexity intensifies. In this qualitative research, the empirical context in focus are schools. It investigates how entrepreneurship is constructed among teachers in their work. But also how this business concept is included in a non-business setting by studying how the entrepreneurship strategy is operationalised in educational practice. As such the thesis and its findings contribute to the scientific discussions on societal entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education, as well as on strategy and strategising in a public context. The research also aspire to serve inspiration, insights and food for thoughts on discussions and reflections on entrepreneurship within the school practice. This compilation thesis include five papers. To be able to fulfil the aim this research use a broad theoretical base and multiple qualitative research methods. The combination of methods include semi-structured interviews, in-depth interview using the stimulated recall method, focus group interviews, participative meetings, observations, document studies, digital questionnaires, written inquiries, analysing texts and critical incidents questionnaires.
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Hay, Edward H. "The perceived benefits of school-based-enterprise certification by marketing educators in Wisconsin." Online version, 2009. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2009/2009haye.pdf.
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Friberg, Martina, and Sanna Neimark. "Entreprenörskap i skolan : vad tycker lärare i årskurs 1-3?" Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-10656.
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Ordet entreprenörskap skrevs in i grundskolans läroplan 2011 och ingår idag i skolans uppdrag. Entreprenörskap är i ropet såväl internationellt som nationellt och begreppet har letat sig in i styrdokument via Europarådet och regeringskansliet. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka verksamma lågstadielärares attityder till entreprenörskap i skolan för att få en uppfattning om det aktuella läget i den svenska grundskolan. Studiens frågeställningar fokuserar bland annat på hur viktigt lärare anser att entreprenörskapsarbete är i olika årskurser, om de vill arbeta med entreprenörskap samt hur de graderar elevens och näringslivets intresse gällande entreprenörskap i skolan.Det finns flertalet pågående projekt som syftar till att stimulera entreprenörskap i skolan såväl nationellt som internationellt genom organisationer som Komtek, Ung företagsamhet och Snilleblixtarna för att nämna några. Det forskas friskt på området entreprenörskap i skolan. Något som är relativt outforskat är däremot lärares attityder gentemot entreprenörskap i skolan. En del av den forskning som finns på området är gjord i Finland och Malaysia och visar i stort att lärare har en positiv inställning till entreprenörskap men upplever bristande kompetens inom området.För att kunna ställa attityder mot varandra och finna eventuella mönster valdes kvantitativ metod som grund för studien. Data samlades in via en webbenkät som skickades ut till lärare verksamma i årskurs 1-3 i ett eller flera av ämnena svenska, engelska, matematik, SO och NO.I linje med tidigare forskning visar resultaten i denna studie att lärares attityder till entreprenörskap överlag är positiv. Attityderna varierar dock och en stor del av respondenterna upplever begreppet vara värdeladdat. Resultatet visar att respondenterna övervägande anser att entreprenörskapets relevans i utbildning ökar i och med elevers stigande ålder. Detta trots att de allra flesta anser sig ha en bred definition av begreppet entreprenörskap enligt vilket entreprenörskap i skolan handlar om att utveckla grundläggande förmågor som kreativitet, innovationsförmåga och handlingskraft.
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Kelly, Ryan P. "An Exploration of Stem, Entrepreneurship, and Impact on Girls in an Independent Day School." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10277920.
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The 21st century has seen a pervasive theme in STEM continue from the 20th century: women do not pursue and persist in STEM careers at anywhere near the rate of men. Furthermore, STEM education has fallen short in preparing its students to enter the workforce as entrepreneurial knowledge workers prepared to innovate. As STEM and entrepreneurship receive unprecedented attention in scholarly circles, the first purpose of this mixed methods study at an independent day school was to examine the impact of a predominately female STEEM (i.e., science, technology, engineering, entrepreneurship and mathematics) teaching staff on girls’ perceptions of STEEM. The second purpose of this study was to examine the impact of adding entrepreneurship to a STEM curriculum. The ultimate goals of this study were to inform local policy and practice.
Through teacher interviews, student focus groups, and a student survey, this study investigated the impact of female teachers and a recently established entrepreneurship-infused curriculum. The theory of action guiding this school is that female STEEM teachers and the inclusion of entrepreneurship skills and projects can improve girls’ perceptions of the STEM classroom, helping them to view STEM as less gender-oriented (i.e., male-oriented), and thereby make these classes feel more welcoming to girls. This is aimed at increasing their adoption of STEM majors in college and STEM careers after they graduate.
This study has four major findings. First, the predominantly female STEEM faculty appeared to build girls’ confidence in their STEEM classes. Second, the STEEM teachers use active learning and critical thinking to engage the girls in their classes. Third, the introduction of entrepreneurship appears to have helped increase girls’ interest in STEM. Last, even while discussing their efforts to increase girls’ engagement with STEM, many teachers celebrate gender blindness.
These findings raised a number issues that should be important educators and (especially) school leaders. These include the importance of high standards for girls in STEEM classes, the value of including real world experiences in STEEM lessons, the success of expanding STEM with a less traditionally academic area and the challenges that gender blindness can perpetuate for educators and their students.
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Lindster, Norberg Eva-Lena. "Hur ska du bli när du blir stor? : en studie i svensk gymnasieskola när entreprenörskap i skolan är i fokus." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-127563.
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The general aim of this thesis is to examine and explain how education fosters future citizens when Swedish upper secondary schools work actively with entrepreneurship in school. Toward this aim, two research questions are asked: How are students governed and how do students govern when focus is on entrepreneurship in school? How do teachers relate to entrepreneurship in school? The study took place in a school development program with a focus on teachers developing their abilities and working with entrepreneurship in schools. Four studies presented in four articles form the cornerstones of the thesis. The empirical data was collected during 2013– 2014 in three of the participating schools. Different methods were used. The first step was reading and analysing policy documents, followed by observations in the classrooms, interviews with the teachers with the help of performance maps, and interviews with the students in gendered focus groups. In total, 14 teachers and 90 students were involved in the study. The schools were geographically spread and represented both public and independent schools. For this study an abductive approach was used, which means that the empirical data were collected and first studied unbiased. Various theoretical models were chosen to find answers to the specific research questions; thus, a connection between the theory and the empirical data was made. The first article examines whether a citizen with entrepreneurial abilities is fostered in school when the concept of entrepreneurship has a place in the curriculum. This article also analyses the curriculum (Gy11) and more specifically what can be read under the heading The Task of the School. The main result from this study shows that students are emphasising entrepreneurial abilities over other abilities. The second article draws a comparison between John Dewey’s ideas of progressive education from the early 1900s and the teaching methods that have come to be advocated for developing student ́s entrepreneurial abilities. The main purpose of progressive education is to foster a democratic citizen; here I could observe that techniques for teaching entrepreneurship are comparable to progressive education, but the purpose is not the same. The purpose of entrepreneurship in school is primarily to foster individuals who are active and responsible for their own future. Michael Foucault's concept of governmentality is the focus of article three, which explores how students are governed and shaped when entrepreneurship in school is emphasised, and it explores whether boys and girls are governed in different ways. The analysis of the result indicated that the students were governed in three different ways in the three school contexts, and girls and boys were governed in different ways both among the schools and within the schools. The fourth article addresses how the teachers relate to entrepreneurship in schools in light of new reforms, marketization, more regulation and the demands of being an entrepreneurial teacher. The result shows three narratives: the cool teacher, the stressed teacher, and the frustrated teacher, each handling entrepreneurship in school in different ways. This thesis shows that the entrepreneur has come to be presented as a hero and entrepreneurship as a solution to cope with challenges—to the global economy, but also for coping with ourselves and our own lives. It also shows that fostering a democratic citizen is subordinate to fostering citizens with entrepreneurial abilities, as the regime of truth is to become the entrepreneur. The students are both governed and governing toward that direction. And even if teachers have different ways of approaching entrepreneurship in schools, the will to be the entrepreneurial teacher and to foster entrepreneurial citizens is clear.
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Sunesson, T. Daniel. "School networks and active investors." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Finansiell Ekonomi (FI), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-968.
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Alma mater matters: The value of school ties in the venture capital industry. This paper examines the role and estimates the economic value of social networks tied to academic institutions in the venture capital industry. I show that having a shared academic background increases the likelihood of matching between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists by 57%. Similarly, a shared academic background increases the likelihood of matching between different venture capitalists by 42% when they syndicate portfolio company investments. Finally, a shared academic background improves portfolio company performance. For example, when an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist attended the same Top 3 academic institution, the likelihood that the investment will result in an initial public offering or acquisition increases by 42%. This is the incremental effect of having attended the same Top 3 academic institution. Taken together, these results provide strong evidence that shared academic backgrounds help reduce information gaps in the venture capital industry. Unveiling the secrets of the academy: Alumni networks and university endowment success. This paper shows that when university endowments become limited partners with venture capital firms, the performance of their connected portfolio companies improve relative to non-connected ones. Portfolio companies are connected when any of their entrepreneurs attended the corresponding universities for undergraduateor graduate studies. In a differences-in-differences design I compare initial public offering rates between connected- and non-connected venture capital investments in a treated- and an untreated cohort and estimate this effect to be 6%. Since the unconditional sample mean of initial public offerings is 10%, this is commensurate to a 60% increase in the unconditional initial public offering probability. This effect consists of two separate and potentially different effects, however. First, the effect of obtain a new university endowment as a limited partner, second, the effect of losing an already existing university endowment as a limited partner. Further analysis shows that the main effect is mostly driven by the latter. These results continue to hold in a rich set of robustness checks. Goldrush Dynamics of Private Equity. We present a simple dynamic model of entry and exit in a private equity market with heterogeneous fund managers, a depletable stock of target companies, and learning about investment profitability. Its predictions match a number of stylized facts: Aggregate fund activity follows waves with endogenous transitions from booms to busts. Supply and demand in the private equity market are inelastic, and the supply comoves with investment valuations. High industry performance precedes high entry, which in turn precedes low industry performance. Differences in fund performance are persistent, firsttime funds underperform the industry, and the first-time funds that are raised in boom periods are unlikely to be succeeded by follow-on funds. Fund performance and fund size are positively correlated across private equity firms, but negatively correlated across consecutive funds by the same firm. Finally, boom periods can make ”too much capital chase too few deals”. Ownership Matters: A Clinical Study of Investor Activism. This paper studies the involvement and engagement objectives of an activist investor in an institutional environment characterized by concentrated ownership. It highlights the heterogeneity of the investor’s activism and its focus on operational improvements. It emphasizes the ownership structure of the portfolio companies as important determinants of investor activism. Using a carefully selected set of peer companies, it is possible to show that the investor targets undervalued companies with operational slack that maintain open ownership structures. In particular, by avoiding to invest in companies with other active owners, e.g. families and industrial owners, and seeking to invest in companies with more institutional holdings, the investor ensures that there is not only scope for improvements. There is also a reasonable chance of exercising control.Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2010. Sammanfattning jämte 4 uppsatser.
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Finlay, Donald Crawford. "A multi-disciplinary examination and theoretical model of educational entrepreneurship, and emerging education phenomenon of the 1990's." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363917.
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Wahlen, Jesse Michael. "Death of the salesman, but not the sales force : reputational entrepreneurship and the valuation of scientific achievement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117996.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-47, 83).
Using citations as a measure of valuation and death as a shock that affects efforts to "sell" scientific work but not the quality of the work itself, we estimate the importance of "reputational entrepreneurship" on the valuation of life scientists' research. Insofar as reputational entrepreneurship is impactful, it is unclear whether the most effective reputational entrepreneurs are those selling their own work ("salesman") or those promoting the work of others (the "sales force"). While the salesman has more incentive to promote her work, the sales force is larger and likely to be seen as more credible. We find that by commemorating the death of a scientist, the sales force boosts the valuation of the deceased's work relative to what the salesman could have done had she remained alive. This suggests that while science seeks to divorce the researcher's identity from their work, scientists' identities nonetheless play an important role in determining scientific valuations.
by Jesse Michael Wahlen.
S.M. in Management Research
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Allie, Fatima. "Investigating and developing positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship among Secondary school children in the Western Cape." University of the Western Cape, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7770.
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Magister Philosophiae - MPhilIt is a well known fact that the development of entrepreneurs will have a number of benefits for the economy of the country. In addition, entrepreneurship represents an important vehicle to address the challenges of job creation and equity in South Africa. Throughout the world, it has been shown that entrepreneurs are playinga crucial role in expanding the economies in innovative and creative ways. - It is the opinion of policy-makers that with the appropriate enabling environment, South African entrepreneurs can follow the examples of Malaysian and Taiwanese entrepreneurs and make their mark on this economy. It would be very naive to assume that entrepreneurship would solve most of the economic problems of South Africa. However, it could not be denied that it does have an important role to play. Given the historical background of South Africa and the consequences thereof namely. unemployment and low economic growth, it becomes clear that the country not only need more entrepreneurs, but a more positive attitude towards entrepreneurship among all communities. The question arises whether systems are in place to develop positive attitudes amongst all communities, particularly the youth. The Presidents Council's Report (1989) highlighted the inability of the current education system to promote entrepreneurship. It is in the light of the history of South Africa, as discussed above, that this study sets out to investigate the attitudes and methods for developing positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship among school children in the Western Cape. The study also aims to assess the factors that have impacted on their attitudes. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used to get detailed "information on the perceptions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. An exploratory study of available literature and focus group discussions established some key variables that impacted on the attitudes of pupils. In addition, personal and telephonic interviews were conducted with teachers to get their views and opinions on the findings of the survey.
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Zhang, Chi S. M. Sloan School of Management. "A study on cybersecurity start-ups : a financial approach to analyze industry trends, entrepreneurship ecosystems and start-up exits." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104506.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-57).
Now a multi-billion dollar industry, cybersecurity is becoming one of the most attractive industries for investors today. Despite emerging government involvement for cybersecurity governance and even cybersecurity warfare, private sector still dominates cybersecurity today and will remain the backbone of the industry due to its ubiquitous nature and rapid technological evolution. Consequently, success factors behind cybersecurity entrepreneurship in this industry is a necessary topic to study. Entrepreneurship has attracted scholars' attention for decades, and especially in the context of cybersecurity, an industry built solely by entrepreneurs thus far, what in particular drives them to success? My studies focus on three aspects of cybersecurity entrepreneurship, and explore how they contribute to entrepreneurial success in cybersecurity. First I begin by examining key characteristics within the cybersecurity industry, and spell out the emerging trends in investments. I then study the ecosystems behind cybersecurity entrepreneurship, studying the effectiveness of government policies and the impact of culture. Finally, I explore cybersecurity start-ups and compare how they are different from the broader Software and Services industry from a financial perspective. The results from this study helps to map out the key distinctions of cybersecurity entrepreneurship and attempts to identify key interests in this area for future study.
by Chi Zhang.
S.M. in Management Studies
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Chan, Yuk-che, and 陳育之. "A case study of the significance of studying entrepreneurship education in an institute for secondary five graduates." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35320060.
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Swaminathan, Shuba. "Women & early-stage entrepreneurship : examining the impact of the venture funding crisis on male and female-led technology start-ups." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59152.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-25).
Women in technology have always been a minority and the number of women who are founders of venture backed start-ups is even lower. This research empirically investigates venture capital funding received by entrepreneurs along the twin dimensions of gender and geography. The ideal experiment would have been to study the numbers of entrepreneurs who pitch their ideas to venture capitalists by gender, and correlate that number with attrition rates during each stage, and finally study the funding outcome, fully accounting for survivor bias. This data could not be accessed. Therefore, we decided to use the financial crisis of 2008 which resulted in illiquid capital markets as a proxy, and studied pre- and post-crisis funding outcomes. The study assumes Q3'08 as date of crisis. The results indicate that gender does not affect the chances of receiving follow-on funding. The key factors that affected funding were the participation of reputed investors in the pre-crisis funding event, and geographic location of the venture. Men founders were more likely to receive follow-on funding in Massachusetts compared to women founders, while women had a significantly better chance of receiving funding in California compared to their male counterparts. We then investigated the cause of the surprising results. Our analysis indicated that the majority of the women founders who received pre-crisis funding in California were either experienced entrepreneurs with prior founding experience, or possessed an advanced technical degree (Ph.D.). This was in sharp contrast to the women who founded technology companies in Massachusetts who were mostly first time founders, and the majority did not possess advanced technical degrees.
by Shuba Swaminathan.
M.B.A.
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Mierke, David S. "project: spARCH: Igniting Design Thinking Through Architecture How the Architectural Design Process can Inspire Social Entrepreneurship." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1346171281.
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Au, Cho-yin, and 歐祖賢. "Running a small business by students in a secondary school: its impact on learning aboutentrepreneurship : a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30247263.
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Gaidys, Raimondas. "Mokinių požiūris į verslumą kaip sąlyga efektyvesniam verslumo ugdymui mokykloje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090630_095006-86516.
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Šioje studijoje nagrinėjama mokinių verslumo ugdymo efektyvumas mokinių akimis, atskleidžiamas tyrimo aktualumas: šiuolaikinių demokratijų pagrindas yra rinkos ekonomikos sistema. Šiame kontekste ypač svarbus ekonominis švietimas ir supratimo apie verslą ugdymas. Tai susiję su visuomenės požiūrio formavimu, turinčiu įtakos visiems pertvarkos procesams ir jų greičiui, kita vertus, tai kiekvienam piliečiui reikalingos žinios ir įgūdžiai, nes ekonominiai santykiai apima visas gyvenimo sritis ir etapus. Visuomenės poreikis ekonominėms ir verslo žinioms yra didžiulis ir švietimo sistemos uždavinys – padėti šį poreikį patenkinti.
Taigi šio tyrimo tikslas – ištirti moksleivių požiūrį į verslumo ugdymą ir verslumo ugdymo galimybes bendrojo lavinimo mokyklos 10-11 klasėse. Uždaviniai šio tikslo įgyvendinimui:
1. Remiantis moksline pedagogine, psichologine, metodine literatūra nagrinėjamos problematikos aspektu bei teisiniais dokumentais atskleisti verslumo ugdymo teorines dimensijas.
2. Nustatyti efektyvaus verslumo ugdymo galimybes.
3. Išanalizuoti mokinių požiūrį į verslumo ugdymą ir tęstinumą mokyklose.
4. Pateikti išvadas ir praktines rekomendacijas skatinančias efektyvų verslumo ugdymą mokykloje.
Išvados įgyvendinus uždavinius
Pagrindinės priežastys, skatinančios mokinių domėjimąsi verslumo mokymu yra noras tobulėti, savarankiškai mąstyti, išsiugdyti tvirtus mokymosi ir tobulėjimo įgūdžius. Tuo tarpu bendraamžių ir draugų abejingumas dažnai apsunkina domėjimąsi verslumo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]This study examines the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education of the pupils. In terms of relevance the study is based on the fact that modern democracies have market economy system. In this context, particularly important is economical education and understanding of business education. It‘s also related to social attitudes (position) that affects all the transformation processes and their pace, but on the other hand, these are required knowledge and skills for every citizen, as the economic relations cover all areas of life. Public demand for economic and business knowledge is huge, and the main task of education system is to help meet this need. The purpose of the study to investigate students' standpoint towards entrepreneurship education and opportunities of this study at schools of general education forms level 10-11. Following tasks have been brought to achieve this: 1. Reveal theoretical dimensions of entrepreneurship education based on scientific-pedagogical, psychological and methodological issues examining aspects of literature and legal documents. 2. Define effective entrepreneurship education opportunities. 3. Analyze the students' standpoint towards entrepreneurship education and continuity in schools. 4. Provide conclusions and practical recommendations to promote effective entrepreneurship education in school. The implemented tasks have brought these findings: In scientific literature entrepreneurship is associated with creativity, innovation and... [to full text]
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Tvrdá, Pavla. "Podnikatelský plán - Jízdárna Happy Horse s.r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264358.
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Goal of this Master´s Thesis is creation of Business plan for riding school with option of stabling and verification of feasibility in current business environment. Benefit of this work is application of theoretical part on realization of business case Happy Horse and clarification of profitability and riskiness of this investment. Created business plan will be applicable for similar types of projects. Theoretical part consists of steps needed for creation of business plan. Practical part applies used theory to conceive business plan Happy Horse Ltd. This Master´s Thesis verifies profitability of the project considering competition in horsemanship in Prague.
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Butcher, Bradley J. "Entrepreneurial high school: An evaluation and feasibility study of a conceptual school model." Scholarly Commons, 2014. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/58.
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The long-term goal of this project was to inform the design of an entrepreneurial-focused charter school utilizing school-based enterprises (SBEs) to anchor a project-based learning (PBL) curriculum. The study was two parts: 1) to determine the extent of schools utilizing this innovative approach to teach an entrepreneurial-centered curriculum, and 2) to perform and initial feasibility study to determine potential for developing this school in Stockton, California. A content analysis supplemented with interviews and correspondences was used to determine that few, if any, schools in the United States emphasize entrepreneurship and utilize SBEs to support PBL. The feasibility study employed the expertise of education and business leaders to determine that the model has conditional strength. To be successful, the model must build on certain success factors, strong mission and leadership, well developed PBL curriculum and training, and community support, while addressing the legal and logistical challenges of operating school-wide SBEs in a high school environment.
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Ramos, Paulo Henrique Bertucci. "Priorização de ideias inovadoras em projetos no agronegócio por meio de modelo de apoio à decisão multicritério: estudo de caso Startup in School." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/74/74134/tde-02102017-141304/.
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O agronegócio tem um papel importante na balança comercial brasileira. O PIB-Agro representa aproximadamente 25% do PIB total brasileiro. Para manter esse posicionamento na economia, o agronegócio necessita constantemente de inovação de produto, serviço, processo ou organizacional. Geralmente a decisão sobre o que e quando inovar é fator determinante para o sucesso e implementação de uma novidade no mercado. Durante o processo de priorização, o agente decisor sofre inúmeras influências, o que dificulta a decisão final. Diversos métodos foram desenvolvidos para auxiliar no processo decisório. O PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method Enrichment Evaluation) é um dos principais métodos para apoio à decisão, pois ele privilegia o desempenho médio geral dos variados critérios e não exclui o sinergismo entre eles. O objetivo geral deste trabalho foi testar a aderência da metodologia PROMETHEE na priorização de ideias inovadoras no agronegócio. O espaço amostral do trabalho foi o programa de iniciação ao empreendedorismo tecnológico \"Startup in School\" - Edição Google, que ocorreu nas escolas técnicas estaduais do Centro Paula Souza. A escola escolhida na etapa local foi a ETEC Benedito Storani, uma importante escola técnica agrícola do estado de São Paulo. Na seleção foram apresentadas oito ideias inovadoras para solucionar problemas do agronegócio. Como resultado, o método PROMETHEE criou um ordenamento total com a posição das oito ideias inovadoras. O método apresentou o mesmo ordenamento total em todos os cenários testados, o que demonstra sua forte estabilidade.Agribusiness plays an important role in the Brazilian trade balance. GDP-Agribusiness represents approximately 25% of the total Brazilian GDP. To maintain this position in the economy, agribusiness constantly requires product, service, process or organizational innovation. Generally the decision on what and when to innovate is a determining factor for the success and implementation of a novelty in the market. During the prioritization process, the decision-maker suffers numerous influences, which hinders the final decision. Several methods have been developed to assist in decision making. PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method Enrichment Evaluation) is one of the main methods for decision support because it privileges the overall average performance of the various criteria and does not exclude the synergism between them. The general objective of this work was to test the adherence of the PROMETHEE methodology to the prioritization of innovative ideas in agribusiness. The sample space of the work was the program of initiation to the technological entrepreneurship \"Startup in School\" - Google Edition, that occurred in the state technical schools of the Paula Souza Center. The school chosen at the local stage was the ETEC Benedito Storani, an important agricultural technical school in the state of São Paulo. In the selection, eight innovative ideas were presented to solve agribusiness problems. As a result, the PROMETHEE method has created a total ordering with the position of the eight innovative ideas. The method presented the same total ordering in all scenarios tested, which demonstrates its strong stability.
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RODRIGUES, Emanuelle Gonçalves Brandão. "PEDAGOGIAS DE UM “AMOR INTELIGENTE”: Empreendedorismo e racionalização dos afetos na Escola do Amor da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2015. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17278.
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A relação entre religião e empreendedorismo é a discussão que norteia este trabalho, em especial quando desta se vê emergir um discurso mercadológico sobre os afetos vinculados ao mundo corporativo. Ideias como “amor inteligente” ou “casamento-empresa” nos abriram os olhos para uma reestruturação das práticas discursivas da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD): para além da esfera empresarial, o ato de “empreender” passa a ser difundido na igreja, através de um tipo peculiar de pedagogia, como modo de agir em todos os âmbitos da vida, em especial nas relações afetivas. Renato e Cristiane Cardoso, os “professores do amor”, ensinam, através do próprio exemplo e de lições didáticas – características “herdadas” da IURD, instituição a qual são vinculados – como alcançarmos a felicidade na relação a dois e como ela pode nos tornar produtivos em outros âmbitos, como educação e trabalho, principalmente. Partimos da hipótese que a religião tem sido cada vez mais afetada pela cultura empreendedora, de modo tal que até mesmo os afetos passam a ser compreendidos sob a ótica da racionalidade. Nossa proposta central é discutir a relação entre empreendedorismo e religião no contexto moderno por meio de uma análise sociodiscursiva e de trajetória de vida das narrativas do casal Cardoso e de seus seguidores, todas difundidas nos programas da Escola do Amor, nas reuniões da Terapia do Amor, na igreja, e nos livros do casal. O que nos parece mais latente, ao concluir essa pesquisa, é a concepção de vida como projeto de autorrealização, no qual o indivíduo, em sua condição autorreflexiva, orienta suas ações a partir de modelos ideais de felicidade perpetuados por agentes sociais e religiosos.
Relation between religion and entrepreneurship is the main discussion that guides this work, especially when we see arises a marketing discourse about affections related to the corporative world. Conceptions such as “clever love” or “marriage enterprise” drew attention to a restructuring process regarding the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG): beyond the business strategy, the conception of entrepreneurship is spread among the Church trough a peculiar kind of pedagogy, a type that became a modus operandi in all levels of someone´s life, specially the emotional one. Renato and Cristiane Cardoso, the “teacher of love”, teach, using themselves as examples and and didactic lections – features inherent from UGCD, institution to what there are joined – how we can reach happiness in our marriage and how this can make us more productive, mainly in the fields of education and work.Our start point is that religion has been being overly influenced by entrepreneurship culture in such way that even affects are understanding under the rationality view. We aim to discuss the relation between religion and entrepreneurship in the modern context, using a sociodiscursive analyses as well as analyzing the narratives regarding Cardoso´s couple and their followers life path. All that can be found either on the School Love, a TV show, and on the Love Therapy, in the Church, and on the books that the couple publish. It seems more conclusive to us is that the conception of life as a self-realization project, in which the individuals, in their autoreflexive condition, guide their actions from ideal models of life that come from social and religious agents.
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Lara, Johnsson Carmen. "Integrering av entreprenörskap i undervisningen vid gymansieskolans Handels- och administrationsprogram." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för teknik, TEK, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-21422.
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Abstract En ny gymnasiereform genomfördes 2011, och de nya styrdokumenten visar att entreprenörskap ska genomsyra all undervisning i gymnasieskolan. När det nu har gått ett läsår är det av stort intresse att följa upp detta. Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka gymnasielärarnas uppfattning av entreprenörskap samt i vilken utsträckning och hur de integrerar entreprenörskap i sin undervisning inom Handels- och administrationsprogrammet. Illeris olika dimensioner av lärande, såsom innehåll, drivkraft och samspel, har varit den teoretiska utgångspunkten i mitt arbete. Tidigare forskning om entreprenörskap i skolan visar att det finns olika uppfattningar bland lärare om vad utbildning i entreprenörskap innebär. För vissa lärare är entreprenörskap en aktivitet medan andra ser det som en pedagogik, dvs. ett sätt att lära och lära sig. Metod: En kvalitativ intervjustudie har gjorts med sex gymnasielärare på gymnasieskolans Handels- och administrationsprogram. Ett av de viktigaste resultaten av min studie är att de flesta lärarna som intervjuades förknippar i första hand entreprenöriellt lärande med att förbereda eleverna för att starta och driva företag. Det finns några lärare som också ser entreprenöriellt lärande som ett pedagogiskt arbetssätt som uppmuntrar till kreativitet, självförtroende, initiativ- och ansvarstagande som anses vara kompetenser som krävs i en förändrande arbetsmarknad. Det framkom också av resultatet att även om inte alla lärare har integrerat entreprenöriellt lärande i sin undervisning är de flesta positiva till att jobba med entreprenörskap i skolan. De ser flera fördelar i det men de upplever som svårigheter att de har en stor arbetsbelastning och att det inte är lätt att hitta tid till samarbete med andra kollegor. Nyckelord: Entreprenörskap, lärande processer, gymnasieutbildning.
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Abd, Hamid Munirah. "Entrepreneurship education : the implementation in Year 1 primary school curriculum in Malaysia : a case study of one district in East Peninsular Malaysia." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6141/.
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In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in entrepreneurship education and it has taken hold across the world, including Malaysia. In 2011, the Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) reformed its primary school curriculum and introduced entrepreneurship education into the new curriculum on a cross-curricular basis. Based on field work undertaken in one of the districts in Malaysia, this study investigates the perceptions of a selected group of respondents concerning the implementation of the government’s new entrepreneurship education programme in Year 1. It looks at respondents’ understanding of the entrepreneurship element, their views on the purpose of its implementation and the pedagogical and political issues faced during the implementation process. The research also focuses on other important theoretical issues including curriculum reform, human capital and entrepreneurship education. This is a qualitative research study using a case study approach. It was conducted based on in-depth interviews with 48 respondents from five different groups of professionals (officers, headteachers, subject teachers, expert teachers and teachers’ trainers). Respondents were selected using different sampling methods and the acquired data were analysed using Nvivo 9 software. A thematic analysis approach was used to identify themes. The findings suggest that there were relatively different views on the concept and purpose of entrepreneurship education. Specific differences between the implementers (the teachers), headteachers and curriculum developers were also identified. Nevertheless, most respondents agreed that the implementation was a positive development and most respondents had similar opinions concerning the cross-curricular approach. As expected, the findings also showed that the lack of monitoring and poor training had slowed down the implementation. Since there has been little research carried out on entrepreneurship education in primary schools especially in Malaysia, this study will be relevant for the design of future policies in the region and future academic research. It not only reveals the respondents’ perceptions and the actual practice in schools, but it also contributes to the body of knowledge on entrepreneurship education and curriculum reform for future reference.
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Leffler, Eva. "Företagsamma elever : Diskurser kring entreprenörskap och företagsamhet i skolan." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för svenska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-772.
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The aim of this thesis is to study and problematize the concepts of entrepreneurship and enterprise in Swed-ish compulsory schools. The studies presented in this thesis focus both on scientific publications and official documents that deal with entrepreneurship and enterprise in compulsory schools and on school projects that have been carried out in years 4 to 6 in the county of Västerbotten. The main questions of the study are: • How did the discourse on entrepreneurship and enterprise in school arise? • What do concepts of entrepreneurship and enterprise mean in Swedish nine-year compulsory schools? • How is discursive practice concerning Entrepreneurship and Enterprise in schools expressed? Michel Foucault’s theories of discourse, power and discipline have been used as analytical tools, together with gender theories. Characteristic for the research on entrepreneurship is that it is multidisciplinary. There are difficulties, both nationally and internationally, to explicitly define the concept of ”entrepreneur”. The entrepreneur is described as an individual with abilities to take action, initiative and risks but also as being creative, innovative and cooperative. These are characteristics that both society and school can make use of. Unemployment among young people and changing needs in society are reasons why the concept “enter-prise” is present on most of the agendas of the OECD countries today. Society requires individuals who can take responsibility and initiative and who are creative. Training in and about entrepreneurship has devel-oped and therefore it has been possible to stress its relevance for the entire educational system. Training for entrepreneurship is directed towards economics, i e a discourse about enterprise while training about entre-preneurship turns against training in general by relating to up-bringing and human inner qualities. A dis-course in enterprise has been formed, whose aim is to develop pupils into responsible, creative, active, cooperative and enterprising members of society. This is where a new discourse is created and it is a dis-course in enterprise and schools. Even so, the road into school is via economics because the main aim of entrepreneurship is economic growth and increased employment rate. Throughout the different texts about entrepreneurship and enterprise in school there is a tendency to use dichotomies. In this case it concerns what is the right or the wrong way of teaching. Enterprise teaching, as it is used in entrepreneurship and enterprise in schools, is considered the right and true way of teaching, while the practice in schools is de-scribed as the opposite. A struggle between two discourses appears; the struggle between the entrepreneurial school discourse and the official school discourse, the latter with its origin in the national curriculum from 1994, Lpo 94. At the end of the 1990s a number of school projects were initiated, both nationally and inter-nationally, aiming at stimulating pupils’ enterprising skills. In the county of Västerbotten school projects were initiated under the overarching project PRIO1, Priority Enterprise County of Västerbotten and in-cluded students of all ages. The schools could choose either an entrepreneurial or an enterprising approach to their projects. The enterprise approach was more invisible, less concrete and more difficult to evaluate and measure. The work with entrepreneurship and enterprise in school in the investigated schools show that well-established and current discourses in the schools were transferred to the ”new” discourse. Instead of transferring the “new aspects” that the project was expected to contribute to the current discourse, the ”old” and already well-known aspects were transferred to the new discourse. Consequently, the projects themselves did not result in a comprehensive change of the discourse in practice.
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Naess, Emmy, and Melinda Sjölander. "Entreprenöriellt lärande : En fenomenologisk studie om pedagogers uppfattningar av entreprenöriellt lärande i skola och fritidshem." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131417.
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Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur pedagoger uppfattar entreprenöriellt lärande i grundskola och fritidshem. Anledningen till att vi valt att forska kring pedagogers uppfattningar och erfarenheter om entreprenörskap och entreprenöriellt lärande, som också är vårt syfte med studien, är att vi läst i styrdokument att det är viktigt att arbeta med entreprenöriella förmågor i skolan men inte erfarit hur ett sådant arbete kan se ut eller märkt av att andra skolor arbetar med det. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ metod och en fenomenologisk ansats har vi därför samlat in datainformation om pedagogers erfarenheter och upplevelser kring entreprenöriellt lärande i skola och fritidshem. Vi genomförde parintervjuer för att värdera den sociala interaktionen vi märkte under en pilotintervju, samt att pedagogerna skulle kunna hjälpas åt med att berätta om deras upplevelser och erfarenheter kring entreprenöriellt lärande. Resultatet visar på att pedagogerna delar samma uppfattningar om vad begreppet innebär, nämligen att det är svårdefinierat samt att det handlar om andra förmågor och kompetenser än vad de vanliga skolämnena kräver, även fast arbetet ser olika ut på olika skolor och fritidshem. Samtliga pedagoger tycker även att detta är viktigt att arbeta med trots att det finns många saker runtomkring som påverkar arbetet med entreprenöriellt lärande, som till exempel tidsbrist, brist på kunskap om begreppet samt att många utav de skolor som pedagogerna arbetar på har bestämt att pedagogerna ska gå olika fortbildningar för att utveckla verksamheten på olika sätt. Något som vi har kommit fram till under studiens gång är att skolans roll inte endast är att utveckla elevernas kunskaper inom de olika ämnena, utan skolan har även i uppgift att förbereda eleverna inför livet efter skolan som ansvarsfulla medborgare, att lära för livet.
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Humlová, Anna. "Maloměsta - možnosti podnikání." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136238.
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The goal of this thesis is to analyse the business opportunities in Libáň and propose a new business plan, which in this particular town is missing and has the potential to succeed. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part deals mainly with small and medium sector companies and prerequisites for a successful business. There are also explained the terminology attaching to the business and the business plan. The practical part consists of a business plan of the language school in a small town. The plan also contains of a detailed description of services offered, location and competitive environment as well as marketing and financial plan. At the end of the document are evaluated risks and prospects of the plan.
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Hunter, Lindqvist Steven. "What and How Students Perceive They Learn When Doing Mini-Companies in Upper Secondary School." Licentiate thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-63575.
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The aim of this study is to gain more in-depth knowledge into what Swedish upper secondary school students perceive they learn, and the factors that students perceive affect learning, when they start and run mini-companies within the Junior Achievement Company Program. The data is comprised of interviews with eleven students each of whom ran a mini-company with other students. Situated learning theory, experiential learning theory and theoretical concepts on reflection in learning were used to analyze and further understand the data. The results reveal that the students talk about, and appear to convey, equal importance upon learning general skills as learning business skills when doing their mini-companies. Students describe using general skills they improved while running their mini-companies in other school activities and non-school activities leading to better performance in these activities. Doing business activities triggers learning and provides students with an opportunity to further develop, and learn multiple aspects, of skills. Students identify many factors, such as time, autonomy, assessment, and deadlines, which they associate with their mini-companies. On the whole, they say these factors have a positive effect on learning both business and general skills, however some factors can also inhibit learning. An analysis of all the factors students identified reveals that they originate, or are influenced by, multiple contexts such as school, the Swedish Junior Achievement organization, and the business environment. Together these factors can be said to create a special school community of practice for their mini-company project. Students point out significant differences between their mini-company project, and other school projects they have previously done, thus providing valuable insight into the importance of project design in relation to learning skills and possible pedagogical implications regarding learning general skills in other school projects.This thesis strives to gain further knowledge and understanding into what Swedish upper secondary students perceive they learn, and how they learn, when starting and running Junior Achievement mini-companies. The data is comprised of interviews with eleven students each of whom ran a mini-company with other students. Situated learning theory, experiential learning theory and theoretical concepts on reflection on learning were used to analyze and further understand the data. The results reveal that students talk about, and appear to convey, equal importance upon learning general and business skills. General skills students improved when doing mini-companies can benefit other school and non-school activities. Students perceive that learning is not only triggered by the business tasks they do, but is also influenced by a multitude of factors such as time, autonomy, assessment, and deadlines that affect what, and how they learn. Overall, students perceive factors that they associate with the mini-company project have a positive effect on learning skills, however some can also inhibit learning. Students point out many differences between the mini-company project and other school projects providing valuable insight into the importance of project design in relation to learning skills.
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Leslie, Susan Elder. "An examination of the information behaviour of new entrepreneurs in the start-up phase of a business submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1271.