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...

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...

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) has become a prominent discipline for managing increasingly complex Business/IT relationships in organizations. The more tangible aspects of EAM like modeling, planning, principles or governance structures are widely discussed and understood. However, institutionalizing EAM in an organization remains a challenging issue. Therefore, actually realized EAM ...

This paper investigates how the encouragement of entrepreneurship within university research labs relates with research activities, research outputs, and early doctorate careers. Utilizing a panel survey of 6,840 science & engineering doctoral students at 39 R1 research universities, this study shows that entrepreneurship is widely encouraged across university research labs, ranging from 54% in...

The study examined the entrepreneurship awareness and skills among Library and Information Science (LIS) students in two Nigerian Universities. In Nigeria, the overcrowded job market is forcing thousands of graduates into unemployment and its associated consequences of kidnapping, drug addiction, youth restiveness and general poor standard of living. This has made it imperative that graduates b...

This paper consists of an introductory survey of two fundamental questions regarding the link between entrepreneurship and economic growth. The first one deals with the endogenous relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. In particular, we suggest that, while more entrepreneurship could mean more economic growth, economic growth in turn could affect the individual arbitrage between diff...

Even though entrepreneurs in different countries share some universal traits, they may also have other traits that are specific to their own national culture. Entrepreneurship behaviour is respectively linked to cultural values, and this association is based on the framework of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. Studies indicate that national culture plays an essential impact on entrepreneurship. ...

In this paper we argue that open agent organisations can be effectively designed and implemented as institutionalised electronic organisations (electronic institutions) composed of a vast amount of heterogeneous (human and software) agents playing different roles and interacting by means of illocutions. Here we present the principal components that define an electronic institution.