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Nascent Student Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurial education and extracurricular programmes have been introduced into universities to respond to student demand for such skills along with the increased recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship as a contributor to economic development. This chapter covers firstly student entrepreneurship as a component of university start-ups (highlighting the role that students play in faculty-led start-ups and entrepreneurship as an alternative to employment); secondly, the type of support provided by universities for start-ups through curriculum-based and extracurricular programmes; thirdly, nascent student technology start-ups (both faculty-led and through entrepreneurial programmes). The implications for entrepreneurship educators, programme organisers and course developers, and business school deans, along with recommendations for future research, are examined and discussed.

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Maniam, R., Everett, A.M. (2017). Nascent Student Entrepreneurship. In: Cunningham, J., O'Kane, C. (eds) Technology-Based Nascent Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59594-2_11

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