Are Universities Playing a Role in Nurturing and Developing High-Technology Entrepreneurs? The Administrators' Perspective

Abstract

This is a study of the administrators' perspective on entrepreneurship education: for example, the extent of, and their support for, entrepreneurship course offerings, and formal and informal initiatives for venturing students. Sixty per cent of the 134 deans in the survey offered entrepreneurship courses in their faculty (that is, 100% of business, and 36% of humanities and social science deans). Relatively few deans of medical sciences, science and engineering and graduate studies offered entrepreneurship courses, although many deans in these faculties were supportive of their faculty offering courses. For informal programmes, 66% of those that offered courses also had ‘non-credit’ programmes to support venturing students, but only 48% of those with no courses had these programmes. Findings show that universities in Canada are not optimizing opportunities to nurture high-technology entrepreneurs.

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