Entrepreneurship as a twenty-first century skill: entrepreneurial alertness and intention in the transition to adulthood

Obschonka, Martin; Hakkarainen, Kai; Lonka, Kirsti; Salmela‐Aro, Katariina

doi:10.1007/s11187-016-9798-6

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“…Previous research on entrepreneurship training include studies that examined the effect of training on university students' entrepreneurial intentions (Souitaris et al, 2007), a pre-post comparison of entrepreneurial career intentions among students in terms of desirability and feasibility (Peterman and Kennedy, 2003), and how entrepreneurial competencies mediate the linkage between entrepreneurial personality and entrepreneurial intention and alertness (Obschonka et al, 2017). Building on these studies, we used a quasi-experimental design to test whether entrepreneurship training (and particular features of it) would improve entrepreneurial competencies and ascertain the impact of training intervention on outcomes of entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial self-efficacy.…”

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Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Entrepreneurial Efficacy and Alertness among Adolescent Youth

Kang

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Front. Educ.

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Our study focuses on the impact of systematic entrepreneurship training comprising both active and passive learning activities on entrepreneurial alertness and efficacy among adolescent youth. Reports from a two-wave online survey among 328 students from five secondary schools (aged 13-16 years; 34.8% male and 65.2% female) reveal that those who went through entrepreneurship training (treatment group, N = 142) had significantly higher entrepreneurial alertness and efficacy levels compared to those who did not go through training (control group, N = 186). We also find that even with gender effects accounted for, the higher entrepreneurial alertness and efficacy levels in the treatment group are due in part to both passive and active/hands-on elements of the program. Our study offers direct evidence that conducting entrepreneurship training programs among secondary school students could be an effective means to enhance entrepreneurial competencies among the youth. Specifically, our findings highlight the value of entrepreneurial training in improving age-appropriate competencies of entrepreneurial alertness and efficacy.

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“…The first outcome of entrepreneurial alertness has been argued to be vital for successful entrepreneurship (Obschonka et al, 2017). Entrepreneurship "is based on [the] discovering of opportunities and resources to exploit them" (Kaish and Gilad, 1991, p. 45).…”

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Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Entrepreneurial Efficacy and Alertness among Adolescent Youth

Kang

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“…We specifically propose several cross-disciplinary and mixed-methods (e.g., Creswell and Clark 2007) directions for future insomnia research. For example, entrepreneurship scholars interested in sociology (anthropology) could quantitatively (i.e., related to "how much" research questions) and qualitatively (i.e., related to "how/why" research questions) investigate the links between social context variables (e.g., institutions; Acs et al 2008;Stenholm et al 2013), cultural context variables (e.g., cultural values or practices; (Stephan and Pathak 2016) or pace of life; (Vedula and Kim 2018)), insomnia, and opportunity recognition-related outcomes such as alertness (e.g., Obschonka et al 2017;Tang et al 2012). Last, entrepreneurship scholars interested in political science and public policy could investigate the links between environmental conditions, insomnia, entrepreneurial alertness, and levels of entrepreneurial activity (Acs et al 2008) by taking into consideration the moderating role of the various policy options (Audretsch 2015).…”

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“…Moreover, highlighting the importance of the entrepreneurial mindset (e.g., Obschonka 2016;Obschonka et al 2017), entrepreneurship scholars interested in organizational behavior could also quantitatively and qualitatively investigate the links between insomnia and entrepreneurial cognition (e.g., Yang et al 2018). For example, future research could investigate the relationships between insomnia and effectuation and causation logics (Yang et al 2018).…”

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Insomnia: An Important Antecedent Impacting Entrepreneurs’ Health

Levasseur

Tang

Karami³

2019

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Insomnia (and sleep deprivation) has an important impact on multiple outcomes such as individuals’ cognitive abilities, decision-making, and affect. In this paper, drawing from sleep research, we focus on entrepreneurs’ insomnia–health relationship and test a serial mediation model that considers entrepreneurs’ insomnia as an important predictor of their poor health. More specifically, we hypothesize that insomnia heightens entrepreneurs’ stress, which leads to increased negative affect, which ultimately undermines their health conditions. Using a sample of 152 Iranian entrepreneurs, we found support for our hypotheses as our results suggest that insomnia has a positive (and detrimental) effect on poor health (via more stress and negative affect). Contrary to research calls focused on stress reduction as one performance improvement mechanism, our results suggest sleep quality as a more effective mechanism for entrepreneurs to reduce their stress and to improve their health. Theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and directions for future research are also discussed.

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“…Thus today, entrepreneurial thinking and acting is seen as a 21st century skill, one of the basic meta-capabilities that the young generation will need to develop to be successful in life. (Obschonka et al 2016).…”

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doi.org/10.17501/icedu.2017.3131 3rd International Conference on Education, 20-22 April 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia INTEGRATING ELEMENT OF GREEN SKILLS IN THE 21st CENTURY LEARNING

Ismail¹,

Kamis²,

Kob³

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International Conference on Education

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Abstract:The outline of introducing green skills for a sustainable development is contained in the document called Transformation of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), which is part of the 11th Malaysia Plan. There is a need to incorporate green skills into TVET programs to achieve sustainable development in the country, and in turn stimulate inclusive economic growth. The Ministry of Education, Malaysia launched the initiatives of the 21st century education in 2015. The secondary school standard curriculum framework has integrated knowledge, skills and values, and explicitly included the 21st century skills in the lesson for students. This study aims to explore the elements of green skills that can be integrated into the curriculum of STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Qualitative research design was used to collect data from individuals through interviews, and focus group discussions; the information was then triangulated with the findings of the analysis document. The purposive sampling technique was used to select respondents. The findings reveal that there are 10 elements of green skills that can be integrated into the learning of the 21st century skills: communication skills, intellectual skills, interpersonal skills, self-management skills, learning skills, career development skills, environmental awareness skills, green practices skills, STEM skills and entrepreneurship skills. There is a necessity to incorporate the elements of green skills into the school curriculum, which will add value to the overall education. The students produced will form a pool of skilled manpower; they can act as catalyst to propel the nation towards sustainable development.

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Entrepreneurship as a twenty-first century skill: entrepreneurial alertness and intention in the transition to adulthood

Cited by 171 publications

References 55 publications

Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Entrepreneurial Efficacy and Alertness among Adolescent Youth

Impact of Entrepreneurship Training on Entrepreneurial Efficacy and Alertness among Adolescent Youth

Insomnia: An Important Antecedent Impacting Entrepreneurs’ Health

doi.org/10.17501/icedu.2017.3131 3rd International Conference on Education, 20-22 April 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia INTEGRATING ELEMENT OF GREEN SKILLS IN THE 21st CENTURY LEARNING

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