ERIC Number: EJ1114330
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Entrepreneurship Education: Enhancing or Discouraging Graduate Start-Up at the University of Pretoria
Botha, Melodi; Ras, Rochelle
Africa Education Review, v13 n2 p96-114 2016
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.
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Business, Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Risk, College Graduates, Educational Attitudes, Case Studies, Universities, Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Learning Processes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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