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- Exploring students entrepreneurial mindset. Insights to foster entrepreneurship in engineering educationPublication . João, Isabel; Silva, JoãoHigher education graduates have a huge potential forinnovative processes and sustainable economic development. The higher education institutions must play an important role in engaging students for entrepreneurial careers, enhancing their skills in entrepreneurship. Students capable of identifying opportunities and turning ideas into business, who have good communication and leadership skills as well as strong technical competencies are likely to be highly valued in the marketplace. This paper presents the results of a survey to investigate students’ entrepreneurial mindset. The main concern is to understand the interest of the students in entrepreneurship and reasons to start or not start a business, the engineering students’ perceptions of their entrepreneurial related abilities, as well as their perception about the extent by which entrepreneurship is addressed in their engineering programs. The students were selected among two engineering master courses in a Portuguese Engineering School of a Polytechnic Institute. The curricular unit of entrepreneurship is part of the curriculum in one of the master course, while in the other course the students do not have such subject in their study program. The data were collected to investigate differences within and across engineering students who are and who are not participating in entrepreneurship courses as well as diferences concerning some demographic characteristics.
- Developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students: encouraging entrepreneurship into engineering educationPublication . João, Isabel; Silva, JoãoIt is unquestionable the role of entrepreneurship as a driver of innovation and economic development. The world is dynamically changing and intensively interconnected carrying new challenges and opportunities to the new generation of engineers working in a world where innovation will continue to evolve very quickly. This paper addresses the need to train engineering students to be entrepreneurial engineers considering the global challenges and the role that higher education institutions should play in developing an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students. The paper presents and discusses the results of a survey carried out in a Portuguese engineering school with the goal of investigate students' entrepreneurial mindsets. The main objective is to understand the extent by which entrepreneurship is addressed in students' engineering programs as well as students' perceptions of their entrepreneurial related skills and the reasons that would lead the students to start or not start a business as well as their perception of the ability to immediately start a business. The results of the study are critically analysed in light of the challenges and opportunities facing future engineers. The work, although limited to a specific context is a valuable starting point for additional research and for the implementation of faculty strategies to improve entrepreneurship education.
- Cultivating entrepreneuship in higher education during a crisis condition: crisis related issues discussed in entrepreneurship literaturePublication . João, Isabel; Silva, JoãoThis paper presents a comprehensive state of the art regarding the crisis issues debated within entrepreneurship literature. It is crucial to understand the way that different types of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial activities and dynamics are affected by the crisis to produce insights to foster entrepreneurship in higher education during crisis conditions. The literature review covers the last twenty years, and the nature of research studies highlights the relevance as seen by the growing number of studies over the last years. A set of criteria were used to classify the selected paper and crisis related issues were discussed within the chosen criteria. The discussion produced insights to cultivate higher education entrepreneurship in times of crises and helped do envisage useful teaching and learning tools to shape an entrepreneurial culture by fostering students' skills in crisis environments. Findings can have direct implications for scholars on entrepreneurship education and contribute to enrich entrepreneurial higher education during adverse conditions.