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标题：Perceptions of Students on Entrepreneurship Curriculum Contents and Openmindedness: Implications for Business Idea Generation of Nigerian University Students
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作者：Maxwell Ayodele Olokundun ; Chinonye Love Moses ; Oluwole Oladele Iyiola 等
期刊名称：Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal
印刷版ISSN：1087-9595
出版年度：2017
卷号：23
期号：2
页码：1-10
语种：English
出版社：The DreamCatchers Group, LLC
摘要：Entrepreneurship education in universities is aimed at inculcating entrepreneurial skills and attitudes in students to motivate entrepreneurial intentions or increased considerations of entrepreneurship as a career by graduates (Middleton, 2010). Though research on the impact of entrepreneurship education in the western world and particularly in Nigeria suggests a positive influence on entrepreneurial intentions of university students, however the rising rate of graduate unemployment and aspirations for white collar jobs in Nigeria indicate a contrary effect of the programme on students? entrepreneurial intentions (Okorie & Adali, 2013). Entrepreneurship education is a purposeful action which should stimulate participants? mindset for generating innovative and creative business ideas (Sadeghi, Mohammadi, Nosrati & Malekian, 2013). Gafar, Kasim and Martin (2013) in their presentation of Hynes? process model of entrepreneurship education stressed the significance of idea generation in the course content and process nature of entrepreneurship education based on the assertion that idea development is a major determinant of successful entrepreneurial endeavour and an expression of entrepreneurial intentions. It is important to state that researchers such as Adebayo and Kolawole (2013), Dirk Benson and Bruce (2013) as well as Papadimitriou (2015) have advocated a refocus of entrepreneurship curriculum content in universities to bridge the gap between theory and practice with particular emphasis on entrepreneurial intentions. However, there is a need to situate the assessment of the effects of the curriculum contents on student entrepreneurial intention in a more specific perspective especially in the Nigerian university context. It becomes imperative to ascertain whether entrepreneurship curriculum contents stimulate open-mindedness of undergraduates to generate business ideas.
关键词：Entrepreneurship Education;Entrepreneurship Curriculum Contents;Open-Mindedness;Business Idea Generation