For several decades, marketing researchers have stressed that firms can achieve competitive advantage by creating superior value for customers through innovation. However the literature on entrepreneurship and innovation based competitive strategy is deficient in several important respects. First, entrepreneurship has been poorly measured in the past. Next, research on innovation is biased towa...

Through entrepreneurship education, engineering students are increasingly being prepared to work for startup companies or launch their own ventures. Understanding and utilizing the language relevant to entrepreneurship is essential to establish legitimacy and participate fully in the entrepreneurial community. Identifying the entrepreneurship-related lexicon in which engineers should be fluent ...

Entrepreneurship, business social orientation and web 2.0 are three areas of growing interest in last years, which converges in this work into a kind of entities that emerged in the first decade of the twenty-first century: peer to peer Charities and social e-banking. This paper aims at identifying common features and patterns across this social entrepreneurial organizations adopting enterprise...

College entrepreneurship education relatively lags behind in china at present. The main reason is that the lack of qualified teachers. For the construction of teachers' team training, firstly analysis the characteristics of the entrepreneurship education level, and then divide into two relatively independent levels which are basic entrepreneurship education theory and comprehensive practice. Ac...

Entrepreneurship courses had a tremendous potential to improve the knowledge and skills of thestudents in Agricultural Applied-Scientific Education Centers (AASECs) to make a business aftergraduating. This study was designed to analyze barriers of entrepreneurship education coursesdelivering in AASECs in Fars Province. The population of the study consisted of all 1018 students infour AASECs in ...

This paper introduces a case study of the entrepreneurship studies in the Faculty of Telecommunication and e-Business at Turku University of Applied Sciences. There are three levels of entrepreneurship studies in our faculty: a) What is entrepreneurship? –to raise the awareness and motivation towards entrepreneurship, b) Student co-operatives and Support centres for training the students with t...

Metaphors are powerful tools for sensemaking, sensegiving and theory development, but they are often concealed in academic writing. This paper uncovers two metaphors underlying entrepreneurship discourse and research – elixir and mutagen. The elixir metaphor is uncovered by examining critiques of entrepreneurship research and serves as a compact description of problematic aspects entrepreneursh...

Entrepreneurship is important in the daily business environment and is plays a crucial role in the world economy. Entrepreneurship is an interesting topic as it deals with the behaviour of the firm entrepreneur and the entrepreneur’s main competencies. However, the field of entrepreneurship world over is evolving and so is it in India. The focus of this paper is on entrepreneurship in modern ne...