Workshop: Entrepreneurship Education and Text Needs for the 21 st Century 1 GCEC Annual Conference 2013

1-2  Get Help!  Review and Get Feedback on Research  Methodology  Input sources  Preliminary results  Expected final results  In order to maximize value to entrepreneurship educators and authors

1-3  Research question 1: How do current entrepreneurship textbooks meet or fail to meet the demands of entrepreneurship education in the 21 st Century?  Research question 2: How can a new framework for entrepreneurship education help prepare the next entrepreneurial generations?  For publication in: Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth (AISEIEG)

1-4  Identify textbooks in use for entrepreneurship courses  Survey request via to GCEC members  Follow up phone calls and s  Identify entrepreneurship current concepts & practices  Tables of contents  Moderate granularity  Relative weight of coverage  Identify emerging practices and concepts from the literature  Analyze text books for coverage of concepts and practices.  Identify and document insights which could guide scholars in developing future entrepreneurship texts and instruction

1-5  Edelman, et. al. 2004, AOM  Request for text in use to AOM Division  20 responses  Texts selected by authors  14 of 26 texts  Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics Activities  27 activities  Analysis of correlation  Nascent entrepreneurs reporting  Topics covered in texts  Relationship to startup operating status

1-6  s to 200+ GCEC members requesting survey  Follow up phone calls to 80  Response from 24  Texts Identified  22  Some specialized: Finance, Legal, Ethics  14 from Edelman research (3 overlapping)  Topics identified  58 current  12 emerging  Identified coverage of topics in 12 of 22 so far  Beginning literature search for emerging concepts

1-7  Identify additional texts  Follow up with GCEC members  Publishers  Identify emerging concepts  Literature  Harvard Business Review  Sloan Management Review  Journal of Business Venturing  Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice  Survey  Other sources?  Analyze topic coverage  Explore possible insights

22 texts so far

15 of 26

58 Current

17 Candidates

1-14  Expected results  Useful?  Improvements?  Methodology  Adequate?  Improvements?