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Education matters – but does entrepreneurship education? An interview with David Birch
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For most entrepreneurship scholars and quite a few policy makers David Birch is well known, even though very few of today's scholars in the field have actually met him. His research in neighborhood and community development in the late seventies paved the way for the work of many of today's entrepreneurship scholars. In essence his findings were simple and easy to understand for policy makers: New and small businesses create the lion's share of new jobs. His finding became the foundation for government initiatives to support growing high-growth small firms—what Birch called “gazelles.” To be able to continue research and to build his database in order to analyze the development of businesses, Birch left MIT in 1983 to set up his own research company, Cognetics, Inc. Cognetics was subsequently sold to Publicis 3 years ago and became Arc Analytics. In 1996, David Birch was named the first recipient of the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research.
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“The contribution of active/hands-on activities to the development of entrepreneurial efficacy (i.e., skillset) in the students is supported by arguments on the impact of experiential learning in entrepreneurship education (e.g., Gibb, 1987; Chen etal., 1998; Aronsson, 2004; Fuchs etal., 2008).”
From Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Entrepreneurial Efficacy and Alertness among Adolescent Youth (2018) · cites this paper as Aronsson, 2004
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Wilson, F., Kickul, J., & Marlino, D. (2007) · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice · doi:10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00179.x · Cited by 1,983
“…entrepreneurship guru David Birch, in a recent interview, advocates strongly for the increased use of mastery experiences in encouraging entrepreneurship, especially lengthy and meaningful apprenticeships, and argues that most entrepreneurship programs fall short in this area (Aronsson, 2004).”
Entrepreneurship education: a review of its objectives, teaching methods, and impact indicators
Mwasalwiba, E. S. (2010) · Education + Training · doi:10.1108/00400911011017663 · Cited by 838
Rauch, A., & Hulsink, W. (2015) · Academy of Management Learning & Education · doi:10.5465/amle.2012.0293 · Cited by 781
“While the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education has been questioned in theoretical literature (Aronsson, 2004; Fiet, 2000; Weaver et al., 2006), a recent meta-analysis of 42 independent samples (N 5 16,657) revealed that entrepreneurship education is useful, reporting an average effect size…”
BackgroundRideout, E. C., & Gray, D. O. (2013) · Journal of Small Business Management · doi:10.1111/jsbm.12021 · Cited by 623
“Even business schools, according to David Birch in a 2004 Academy of Management interview (Aronsson 2004), teach the “exact opposite of entrepreneurship—how to work for somebody else.”
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Levie, J., & Autio, E. (2008) · Small Business Economics · doi:10.1007/s11187-008-9136-8 · Cited by 544
“grammes are ill suited to provide the broad-based and practice-oriented training required to teach entrepreneurial skills (Aronsson, 2004; DeTienne and Chandler, 2004; Garavan and O'Cinneide, 1994).”
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- Authors
- Aronsson, M.
- Affiliations
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Aronsson, Magnus
- Venue
- Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 289-292
- ISSN
- 1537-260X (ISSN-L)
- 1944-9585
- OpenAlex
- W1982766682
- Cited by
- 157
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Academy of Management Learning and Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Social Sciences › Education › Vocational and Entrepreneurial Education
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Firm Innovation and Growth
- Keywords
- entrepreneurship education, small business growth, gazelles, high-growth firms, job creation, entrepreneurship policy
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