Entrepreneurship Education: Enhancing or Discouraging Graduate Start-Up at the University of Pretoria

Autor/inn/en	Botha, Melodi; Ras, Rochelle
Titel	Entrepreneurship Education: Enhancing or Discouraging Graduate Start-Up at the University of Pretoria
Quelle	In: Africa Education Review, 13 (2016) 2, S.96-114 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1814-6627
DOI	10.1080/18146627.2016.1224106
Schlagwörter	Entrepreneurship; Teaching Methods; Business; Foreign Countries; Control Groups; Risk; College Graduates; Educational Attitudes; Case Studies; Universities; Structured Interviews; Qualitative Research; Comparative Analysis; Learning Processes; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unternehmungsgeist; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Ausland; Risiko; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; University; Universität; Qualitative Forschung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	In-depth interviews were conducted with a sample of BCom Entrepreneurship graduates, as well as a control group to determine whether the exposure to entrepreneurship education can enhance actual business start-up. Information was collected on how they experienced the learning approaches, and the value which they had derived from the degree. This was done as a case study at the University of Pretoria. More entrepreneurship graduates started businesses than the control group. Findings of the various constraints to start-up--of the entrepreneurship graduates' group--focused on the lack of a viable business idea and know-how, as compared with the other graduate groups, who indicated that fear of failure and aversion to taking risks were their main constraints. The entrepreneurship graduates were less risk averse than the control group. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01