Entrepreneurship Education in Asia
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Entrepreneurship Education in Asia

9781849809474 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Hugh Thomas, Director, Center for Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Finance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Donna Kelley, holds the Frederic C. Hamilton Chair of Free Enterprise and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Babson College, US
Publication Date: 2011 ISBN: 978 1 84980 947 4 Extent: 264 pp
The continuing success of the Asian Miracle relies on an entrepreneurial revolution that has increased the productivity and flexibility of economies across the region. Yet this revolution has largely been necessity-driven, traditional and vulnerable to erosion as the region becomes increasingly prosperous and well educated. How to educate the next wave of entrepreneurs is a pressing Asian question that resonates around the world and is the subject of this volume.

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The continuing success of the Asian Miracle relies on an entrepreneurial revolution that has increased the productivity and flexibility of economies across the region. Yet this revolution has largely been necessity-driven, traditional and vulnerable to erosion as the region becomes increasingly prosperous and well educated. How to educate the next wave of entrepreneurs is a pressing Asian question that resonates around the world and is the subject of this volume.

Hugh Thomas and Donna Kelley draw on 24 scholars from 15 institutions to report on regional entrepreneurship education. They identify problems encountered by educators and describe solutions that stimulate students to create value. The approaches are hands-on, project-based and multidisciplinary, geared to develop educator-to-business entrepreneurial ecosystems. The entrepreneurial programs described in this book involve experiencing foreign cultures, working with major corporations, consulting to small and medium sized enterprises, travelling to distant lands, addressing environmental and social problems, and reaching out to the disadvantaged. Social entrepreneurship is combined with for-profit entrepreneurship in programs that extend the concept of value creation. This book eloquently and expertly describes how entrepreneurship education – whether in Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, China or elsewhere on the globe – can combine with community to help youth create a better world.

Students and scholars the world over, along with administrators, researchers, and all those with an interest in education and entrepreneurship, will find much of interest in this enlightening volume.
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‘This research volume is a useful addition to the growing body of knowledge on entrepreneurship research. . . it is a worthy addition to scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers across industrially developed and developing countries, as well as nations in transition, to their collection of specialised books on.’
– Journal of Small Business & Enterprise Development
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Contributors: G. Abe, P. Adriaens, D. Chang, G. Du, V. Duong TE, T. Faley, S. Guan, D. Kelley, B. Koo, H. Lingyu, J.J. Lee, J. Levie, L. Liu, A.C. Martinez, T. Ohe, R.J. Sæmundsson, T. Schøtt, S. Tih, Y. Wang, K. Wilson, L. Xu, J. Yu
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Contents:

Foreword

Introduction

1. Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs: World Economic Forum Global Education Initiative Executive Summary
Karen Wilson

2. A Global Perspective on Education and Training
Alicia Coduras Martinez, Jonathan Levie, Donna Kelley, Rognvaldur J. Sæmundsson and Thomas Schøtt

3. Chinese Entrepreneurship Education
Du Guirong, Yu Jinquan and Xu Lei

4. Entrepreneurship Education for Engineering and Science Students: A Comparison between China and the US
Huo Lingyu, Liu Lijun and Wang Ying

5. Combining Separate Modules on a Cross-Platform: Entrepreneurship Education for Science and Engineering
Wang Ying

6. Developing Intellectual Entrepreneurship Education Programs for Engineering and Science Students in Chinese Mainland Universities
Liu Lijun and Guan Sisi

7. Entrepreneurship Education in Japan
Takeru Ohe

8. Consulting-based Entrepreneurship Education: Regional Cases
Takeru Ohe and Siohong Tih

9. Developing an Interdisciplinary Social Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Bonjin Koo, Vathana Duong TE and Joosung J. Lee

10. Microfinance Field Study Projects in Asia
George Abea and David Chang

11. Teaching Entrepreneurial Business Strategies in Global Markets: A Comparison of Cleantech Venture Assessment in the US and China
Peter Adriaens and Timothy Faley

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