The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education: Introducing the Entrepreneurship Education Project

Abstract

The Entrepreneurship ducation roject (http://www.trepeducation.com) is a global, longitudinal research initiative through which university students offer entrepreneurship educators and researchers data‐driven insights into the impact of entrepreneurial education on (1) both the motivational processes underlying students' road to entrepreneurship and through the entrepreneurial process and (2) the process of identity transformation from student to entrepreneur. Rooted in ocial ognitive areer heory, the ntrepreneurship ducation roject data initiative is the largest, most comprehensive study of students across the globe. Phase data consist of over 18,000 student responses, spanning over 70 countries and 400 universities. This paper presents an overview of the data, study justification, and conceptual scheme. Initial studies provide results indicating the study measures met contemporary standards or reliability, exceed the average sample sizes of top‐tier entrepreneurship journals, and present some very interesting questions to be explored in future research.

Notes

1. Doan Winkel (Illinois State University) and Jeff Vanevenhoven (University of Wisconsin – Whitewater) served as the Co‐Principal Investigators of the EEP research program from inception in 2009 to the publication of this paper. Together they were responsible for development of the college descriptive survey and the resulting self‐administered questionnaire. Dr. Winkel created the first coding dictionary, acted as the alliance partner contact liaison, and supervised initial data review and aggregation of the phase I survey data from 2010 to 2012. Initial work on assembling U.S. comparisons, and then cross‐national data were initially provided by Will Drago and Christine Clements (both from University of Wisconsin – Whitewater). Additional coding categories and procedures were developed and refined by Dr. Eric Liguori (California State University – Fresno). Dr. Liguori became involved in the EEP in 2011 developing the phase II survey and gathering university‐level data from alliance partners.

2. There may be more than one contributing individual at an institution.

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Notes on contributors

Jeff Vanevenhoven

Jeff Vanevenhoven is an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater.

Eric Liguori

Eric Liguori is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at California State University, Fresno.