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Structured Abstract Purpose This paper explores and analyses the impact of higher education programmes, structures and culture on students’ entrepreneurship intentions and attitudes. It investigates the relationships between education and entrepreneurship using a case study research approach. Design/methodology/approach During the academic year 2008-2009, a questionnaire survey was distributed to a sample of 603, first year and final year students studying business and management studies at two Public HEIs in Greece. Furthermore a series of in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted with, (a) students in order to capture the integral aspects of the phenomena under investigation – i.e. a more comprehensive understanding of the students’ adverse intentions towards entrepreneurship; and (b) faculty members in order to enter their perspective on entrepreneurship and education, as well as unveil the structure (rules and regulations) and the culture (shared beliefs and attitudes) of HEIs. Findings The findings suggest that; (a) students’ entrepreneurial intentions and aspirations deteriorate during their four-year studies in Universities; and (b) faculty members lack the mentality towards entrepreneurship education. Furthermore the research data reveal that the universities’ structure and regulations, in Greece, prohibit the commercialisation of knowledge, technology transfers, spin-off enterprises and industry-university collaborations. Originality/value Although the benefits of entrepreneurship education have been much extolled by researchers and policy makers in the advanced economies of the world, the impact that non-entrepreneurial Higher Education programmes and cultures on students’ entrepreneurial intentions have never been tested before in the less developed Regions of Europe. This study addresses this issue.
Author(s): Piperopoulos P
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Year: 2012
Volume: 19
Issue: 3
Pages: 461-483
Print publication date: 01/01/1993
ISSN (print): 1462-6004
ISSN (electronic): 1758-7840
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14626001211250162
DOI: 10.1108/14626001211250162
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