Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education

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Autor(a) principal: João, Isabel
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Silva, João
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/12654
Resumo: It is unquestionable the role of entrepreneurship as a driver of innovation and economic development. The world is dynamically changing and intensively interconnected carrying new challenges and opportunities to the new generation of engineers working in a world where innovation will continue to evolve very quickly. This paper addresses the need to train engineering students to be entrepreneurial engineers considering the global challenges and the role that higher education institutions should play in developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students. The paper presents and discusses the results of a survey carried out in a Portuguese engineering school with the goal of investigate students' entrepreneurial mindsets. The main objective is to understand the extent by which entrepreneurship is addressed in students' engineering programs as well as students' perceptions of their entrepreneurial related skills and the reasons that would lead the students to start or not start a business as well as their perception of the ability to immediately start a business. The results of the study are critically analysed in light of the challenges and opportunities facing future engineers. The work, although limited to a specific context is a valuable starting point for additional research and for the implementation of faculty strategies to improve entrepreneurship education.
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title Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education
spellingShingle Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education
João, Isabel
Entrepreneurship
Technological innovation
Engineering students
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Engineering education
Students entrepreneurial mindset
title_short Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education
title_full Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education
title_fullStr Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education
title_full_unstemmed Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education
title_sort Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering education
author João, Isabel
author_facet João, Isabel
Silva, João
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author2 Silva, João
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Silva, João
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Entrepreneurship
Technological innovation
Engineering students
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Engineering education
Students entrepreneurial mindset
topic Entrepreneurship
Technological innovation
Engineering students
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Engineering education
Students entrepreneurial mindset
description It is unquestionable the role of entrepreneurship as a driver of innovation and economic development. The world is dynamically changing and intensively interconnected carrying new challenges and opportunities to the new generation of engineers working in a world where innovation will continue to evolve very quickly. This paper addresses the need to train engineering students to be entrepreneurial engineers considering the global challenges and the role that higher education institutions should play in developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students. The paper presents and discusses the results of a survey carried out in a Portuguese engineering school with the goal of investigate students' entrepreneurial mindsets. The main objective is to understand the extent by which entrepreneurship is addressed in students' engineering programs as well as students' perceptions of their entrepreneurial related skills and the reasons that would lead the students to start or not start a business as well as their perception of the ability to immediately start a business. The results of the study are critically analysed in light of the challenges and opportunities facing future engineers. The work, although limited to a specific context is a valuable starting point for additional research and for the implementation of faculty strategies to improve entrepreneurship education.
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