Influences on students attitudes toward entrepreneurship: A multi-country study

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been emphasized in many countries as a way of boosting economic growth and job creation. As entrepreneurship is becoming popular around the world, its education should be customized according to each country's unique cultural context. The purpose of this paper is to identify differences among the selected nations in terms of factors that are important to enhance the pedagogical effect of entrepreneurship education. This is an empirical study based on the data collected from university students in the US, Korea, China and Fiji representing nations with significantly different cultural contexts. The results imply that customized approaches based on unique cultural context are needed for effective entrepreneurship education in each country.

Human and social capital as drivers of entrepreneurship

“…The results suggest that customized approaches with a focus on exclusive cultural contexts are essential for entrepreneurship in every country (Lee et al, 2006). It could explain why the age in Germany has a positive relationship with the propensity to become an entrepreneur but this age relationship is not significant in Costa Rica.…”

Students’ entrepreneurial behavior: international and gender differences

“…According to Freytag and Thurik (2007), country-specific effects are significant for entrepreneurship preferences but in contrast to that result they do not seem to be able to explain entrepreneurial activity. In their 2006-dated paper, Lee et al 2006 tried to determine the disparities among the examined countries regarding the aspects essential to improve the entrepreneurship education. Also, Carayannis et al (2003) indicate that there are differences between American and French entrepreneurship students in terms of attitudes and perceptions towards entrepreneurship.…”

An Investigation and Analysis on Medical Undergraduates’ Participation in Scientific Research: A Case Study on Hubei University of Medicine

“…Encouragement is an important means of scientific research management, which can effectively mobilize the enthusiasm of scientific research personnel, it is conducive to improve the quality of scientific research personnel, and promote continued innovation and development of college scientific research. To establish and perfect an incentive mechanism must strengthen the core role of people, increase investment in scientific research, strengthen the mechanism construction of competitive incentive, and build a fair assessment system [5]. The design of the incentive mechanism should also consider all aspects of the factors, pay attention to the combination of incentives and punishment, the combination of material incentives and spiritual incentives, a variety of measures are reasonably arranged [4], reasonable incentive system will greatly promote the development of college scientific research.…”