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Can Entrepreneurship be Taught to Vocational Students?

An Intervention Study

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Becoming an Entrepreneur

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Abstract

The promotion of entrepreneurial competencies and attitudes is increasingly becoming the policy of governments whose objective is to increase innovation and employment through enterprise creation (ILO, 2003). For example, the European Commission and individual European Union member states have adopted a range of measures to foster a stronger culture of entrepreneurship and to develop an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’ amongst citizens, targeting particularly young people (ECOTEC, 2010).

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  1. Thierry Volery
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany

    Susanne Weber

  2. University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    Fritz K. Oser

  3. Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

    Frank Achtenhagen

  4. Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany

    Michael Fretschner

  5. Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany

    Sandra Trost

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Volery, T., Oser, F., Müller, S., Näpflin, C., Rey, N.D. (2014). Can Entrepreneurship be Taught to Vocational Students?. In: Weber, S., Oser, F.K., Achtenhagen, F., Fretschner, M., Trost, S. (eds) Becoming an Entrepreneur. Professional and Vet Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-596-0_10

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