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We don’t claim to be the expert of entrepreneurship but JADE organisation is.
“E ects And Impact Of Entrepreneurship Programmes In Higher Education”.
This report was prepared in 2012 for the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry.
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This report was prepared in 2012 for the European Commission - DG Enterprise and Industry by EIM Business & Policy Research (the Netherlands). The core project team consisted of Petra Gibcus, Dr. Jan de Kok, Jacqueline Snijders, Lia Smit and Bram van der Linden.
An assessment of the impact of entrepreneurship education at the level of educational institutions can determine the degree to which it has accomplished its objectives and it justi es the resources committed to it.
In line with the objectives mentioned above, this research focuses on the impact of entrepreneurship education programmes provided by higher education institutions on four dimensions:
The results presented in this study are mainly based on a survey among alumni of higher education institutions in Europe who have attended entrepreneurship education and a control group of alumni that have not participated in this type of education. The objective is not to compare education programmes.
Nine higher education institutions participated in the survey: Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria), J.J. Strossmayera University of Osijek (Croatia), Queen’s University of Belfast (United Kingdom), University of Turku (Finland), University of Valencia (Spain), UnternehmerTUM (Germany), Utrecht School of Arts (the Netherlands). In addition, alumni of the European Confederation of Junior Enterprises (JADE) participated. JADE is an international umbrella organisation of junior enterprises established and set up by students.
Alumni who attended entrepreneurship programmes at higher education institutions and the ones represented by JADE are here in after called the entrepreneurship alumni. In total 1,139 entrepreneurship alumni (of which 288 are JADE alumni) and 1,443 control group alumni have completed the questionnaire.
JADE – The European Confederation of Junior Enterprises is an international, non-pro t umbrella-organisation of European enterprises established in 1992 and managed solely by students of higher education institutions. Currently the network consists of 15 Confederations and Consultative Members from Europe, a total of up to circa 300 Junior Enterprises.
A Junior Enterprise is a student association in which students have the opportunity to add practical experience to their theoretical skills, as well as to develop entrepreneurship at an early stage by running professional studies for companies and by managing the organization itself. Students from di erent elds of studies (from business and economics, to engineering, IT and communication)
1. Impact on the entrepreneurship key competence;
2. Impact on the intentions towards entrepreneurship;
3. Impact on the individual’s employability;
4. Impact on society and the economy.
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