Luke Pittaway

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Ohio University

This conceptual paper advocates for adopting a Models-based Practice approach to entrepreneurship education. Models-based Practice represents a potential mechanism for framing the diverse pedagogical models within the entrepreneurship curriculum. Our goal is to address persistent challenges associated with entrepreneurship education outcomes and mo...

Fostering university students’ Opportunity Identification (OI) capability has received much attention from entrepreneurship scholars. There is, however, a lack of comprehensive understanding of “ why” some students can better identify business opportunities and “ how” their OI capability can be improved. This systematic review aims to synthesize th...

Purpose Internal corporate venturing is a vehicle for firms to realize strategic and financial goals through entrepreneurial ventures. Prior research presents a strategic process in which individual managers make rational choices based on their formal roles and top-down corporate objectives. Recent work has challenged this by adopting a relational...

Purpose How national culture induces entrepreneurship and business growth remains elusive in research. Questions remain, for example, how can we determine whether a given national culture is good or bad for entrepreneurial activities? What are those pro-entrepreneurship national culture dimensions that could be promoted across nations? These questi...

This study addresses a research gap in understanding the gender dimensions of perceived entrepreneurial competencies among undergraduate and MBA entrepreneurship students. It aims to unravel the underlying abilities shaping these competencies and explore potential gender variations in perceptions, ultimately contributing to the enhancement of entre...

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is a firm-level equivalent of individual entrepreneurship, and its impact on business performance is widely debated in entrepreneurship literature. However, research findings have been inconclusive due to the influence of moderators such as market dynamism and access to capital. This study aims to address this gap b...

How will instructors effectively manage the use of artificial intelligence (AI) with generative capabilities in entrepreneurship education? This paper introduces a framework to help instructors understand the different roles played by AI and learners as they move through different phases of a learning task. We describe the Artificial Intelligence i...

As coaching and alumni mentoring are used to develop student startup talent the coachability of students becomes an enabling factor for reflection-and action-based learning methods in entre-preneurship education. There is limited research on how to assess and develop coachability, especially in entrepreneurship education. This paper aims to narrow...

This study explores how entrepreneurs’ extent of experience of business failure affects the level of negative emotional response (NER) they experience, moderating the level of personal growth that occurs after business failure. Contrary to common assumption, the study finds no significant relationship between the extent of failure experience and th...

In response to a need for improved training of business school teaching, this research explores US doctoral programs in management and finds a need to purposefully embed scaffolding—the process of gradually enabling the doctoral student to take on more challenging aspects of teaching—into doctoral program design. We also recommend a more influentia...

The articles of the special issue indicate that progressive, constructivist approaches such as problem based learning or communities of practices are consistently pursued. They are also accompanied by novel ones, like the Illerian types of reflective thinking or approaches based on critical pedagogy. We note that the interplay between traditionalis...

This paper applies a supply-side perspective to entrepreneurship education research and explores the socialization process for students in entrepreneurship doctoral programs in the United States (US). It presents the challenges facing higher education regarding how academia prepares future professors to teach. The paper proceeds to build a new mode...

This chapter provides an overview of entrepreneurship clubs. It charts the development of these organizations, as a form of extracurricular activity. It introduces different forms of entrepreneurship club, such as Junior Achievement and Enactus, and explains how they grew from 1919 to the present. It also illustrates the differences between self- o...

This chapter considers the role of venture funding in the entrepreneurial university. It begins by discussing the literature on the entrepreneurial university, focusing on the role of financing. The literature shows that there are gaps in the financing of academic and graduate ventures. The second part of the chapter introduces short case examples...

This chapter considers the role of venture funding in the entrepreneurial university. It begins by discussing the literature on the entrepreneurial university, focusing on the role of financing. The literature shows that there are gaps in the financing of academic and graduate ventures. The second part of the chapter introduces short case examples...

This chapter considers the role of entrepreneurship theory in the development of ideation techniques for entrepreneurship education. It begins by considering how metatheories impact theory construction in entrepreneurship research and discusses the role of ontology, epistemology, axiology, as well as the role of assumptions about human nature and s...

This chapter considers the contemporary experience of entrepreneurship education in the United States (US), within Higher Education. Over the last forty years entrepreneurship has grown explosively across the higher education landscape, from just a few universities with the occasional class in the late 1970s, to entire schools and colleges of entre...

Deadline: January 31st, 2022

The concept of an entrepreneurial university has become popular in the academic literature and with policymakers (Etzkowitz, 2013). The literature on entrepreneurial universities demonstrates that many factors, attributes, and resource conditions need to be in place, and that success varies across different types of university (Gibb, 2002; Lockett...

This paper explores trends in entrepreneurship spaces developed by universities to support entrepreneurship education. It identifies characteristics that make a space conducive to innovation and explains whether current spaces adequately conform to those characteristics. More generally, this paper seeks to clarify what is being built, for which pur...

Purpose Research on entrepreneurial ecosystems has advanced over recent years and has become a popular topic. Despite the interest, previous work has focused on entrepreneurial ecosystems in large cities in the United States. Ecosystems in small cities, underpopulated rural areas, university towns and outside the USA have not been considered much....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore trends in entrepreneurship spaces developed by universities to support entrepreneurship education. It identifies characteristics that make a space conducive to innovation and explains whether current spaces adequately conform to those characteristics. More generally, this paper seeks to clarify what...

Entrepreneurship education continues to grow and develop worldwide. This article seeks to expand knowledge and understanding of educational practice in entrepreneurship by focusing on serious games, specifically computer simulations which model entrepreneurship. This paper begins by reviewing the entrepreneurship education literature to consider th...

Social constructionism as an underlying philosophical approach offers much potential in entrepreneurship research. This chapter introduces social constructionism, explains the underlying philosophy that guides approaches of this nature and highlights prior approaches using a social constructionist frame of reference. The first part of the chapter a...

Trends in entrepreneurship education have been the focus of prior research. Notable recent trends have included the expansion of entrepreneurship education across campus, the increase in programs and activities worldwide and the growth of entrepreneurship education across levels within educational systems. This paper adds to the knowledge base rega...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of human and intellectual capital on start-ups’ attainment of government venture capital (GVC). It is theorized that as a result of government predisposition toward enhancing knowledge spillover and certifying underinvested start-ups, different types of human and intellectual capital posses...

This article is presenting an overview of the literature devoted to entrepreneurial learning and, more specifically, those research bringing environmental elements into the study of the entrepreneurial learning process. Then, it shows how each of the four Special Issue selected research papers contribute to enhancing our knowledge of the complexity...

This chapter provides a rationale for this book and highlights the key literature in the entrepreneurship education discipline as a background context for the study. The organisation and structure of the book is identified and justified. Thereafter, each chapter included within the text is introduced and profiled. The chapter ends by drawing the ov...

This chapter considers the common traps that researchers in entrepreneurship fall into when applying philosophical assumptions. It begins by explaining the importance of considering how meta-theories impact on the construction of knowledge and presents four paradigms and associated philosophical assumptions based on Burrell and Morgan's (1979) para...

This chapter considers the common traps that researchers in entrepreneurship fall into when applying philosophical assumptions. It begins by explaining the importance of considering how meta-theories impact on the construction of knowledge and presents four paradigms and associated philosophical assumptions based on Burrell and Morgan's (1979) para...

Student-led clubs that seek to enhance entrepreneurial learning can be found in many universities. Yet, like many areas of extra-curricular activity in entrepreneurship education, their role in supporting learning has not been researched widely. The paper introduces research that addresses this gap and investigates the nature of the learning proces...

This chapter summarizes the latest studies in entrepreneurial learning in order to highlight their implications for the design of educational programs (Pittaway & Thorpe, 2012). It examines in detail the latest thinking on the subject, summarizes the key concepts and empirical contributions with a particular focus on expanding understanding of ‘sit...

This paper presents research with small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners who have participated in a leadership development programme. The primary focus of this paper is on learning transfer and factors affecting it, arguing that entrepreneurs must engage in ‘action’ in order to ‘learn’ and that under certain conditions they may transfer le...

This chapter explains a method new to entrepreneurship inquiry and a recent introduction to management inquiry, the systematic literature review (SLR). It discusses the current status of entrepreneurship research and shows that it has been criticised for being fragmented when drawing evidence from its wide disciplinary base. The paper argues for gr...

This paper explains Dr Jason Cope's work on entrepreneurial learning, and illustrates his approach and how it can be applied to deepen understanding of, and practice in, entrepreneurship education. It begins with a biography of Cope, which summarizes his academic life and offers a timeline for his publications. This paper then explores his philosop...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop knowledge about the nature of student assessment practice in entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach This paper introduces general assessment practice issues and highlights key considerations. It explains prior research on assessment practice in entrepreneurship education and argues t...

This article focuses on the role of student entrepreneurship clubs and societies. It explores their impact on student learning in order to understand the extent to which such activities simulate entrepreneurial learning. The article reports three studies conducted between 2006— 2007, which explored three different forms of clubs: entrepreneurship c...

This paper explores the role of ‘action’ in entrepreneurial learning and illustrates how programs designed to support action learning can enhance management development in entrepreneurial businesses. The paper begins by exploring action learning and the way ‘action’ is conceived in different types of program. In the second part, the paper details t...

This principally conceptual paper explores how, in conjunction with its market orientation, a firm's internal and external strategic relationships may be used in implementing corporate venturing to achieve its strategic intent. Conceptually, the paper begins by exploring work on strategic corporate venturing. Building on this analysis, a dichotomy...

This paper introduces a course design that used history and inquiry-based learning to develop science students' understanding of invention, innovation and commercialization processes. First, it explains inquiry-based learning and then introduces a sample course design, explaining the rationale, structure and process. Following on from this introduc...

Purpose This paper aims to introduce current debates on assessment practice in higher education and to explore educational research on assessment. Design/methodology/approach The paper progresses by exploring a number of outcomes and highlights their role in helping one to understand the potential reasons for engaging in enterprise education. The...

Purpose This paper aims to identify criteria for assessing the viability of institutional strategies for enterprise education and to develop models that describe methods of organising enterprise education. Design/methodology/approach The paper identifies and explains a number of key criteria including: educational impact, financial sustainability,...

The purpose of this article is to explore different themes within entrepreneurship education via the use of a systematic literature review (SLR). Systematic literature reviews are recognized methods for conducting evidence-based policy. The particular approach to the SLR used in this study is explained and the article explores the findings outlinin...

Theorizing about entrepreneurial learning is examined in this article to determine key learning processes within this body of research. It explores how these processes might be simulated in a student-learning environment and highlights the role of emotional exposure, situated learning, action-orientation and discontinuity. An argument is made for e...

This paper introduces and explains a course design that used history and inquiry-based learning to develop science students' understanding of invention, innovation and commercialisation processes. It introduces the course design briefly explaining the rationale, structure and process of the course. Following on from the introduction a detailed case...

This article explores customer and supplier relationships from the perspective of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A critique of supply chain literature highlights some key problems when research on purchasing behaviour, based on larger firms, is applied to SMEs. Issues considered include the dominance of ideas that depend on the practices of l...

This paper provides a systematic review of the literature on how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use and acquire knowledge. The review was undertaken as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Evolution of Business Knowledge Programme. The paper describes the systematic review protocol and provides a detailed explanation of the...

The purpose of the study was to analyse the perceptions that small business owner-managers held of graduates and graduate skills. The research focused on the tourism, hospitality and leisure sectors and used two methods, focus groups and a survey of firms in Surrey, UK. Firms employing less than 10 people dominated the study. The research highlight...

Purpose – To analyse the philosophies underlying economic studies in entrepreneurship and to explain how they contribute to the understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – A range of historical studies is reviewed that examine entrepreneurship from an economic perspective. A framework of social science research paradi...

The purpose of the study was to explore how social identity influences the construction of leadership development programmes in the Basque Region. The Basque region is recognised as having a strong social and national identity (Kaufmann and Tödtling, 2000; McNeill, 2000). Historically leadership development has been focused on practising leaders an...

Recent work on competitiveness has emphasized the importance of business networking for innovativeness. Until recently, insights into the dynamics of this relationship have been fragmented. This paper presents a systematic review of research linking the networking behaviour of firms with their innovative capacity. We find that the principal benefit...

This paper analyses buyer-supplier relationships from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Preliminary results show that actors within a supply chain are not homogeneous in terms of their size, resources and business motives, and this brings into question the validity and relevance of the purchasing literature when examinin...

The paper reports the results of a systematic literature review that explored the evidence on networking and innovation. The review concentrated on articles published between 1980 and 2003 and from 628 it selected 179 that were rated highly. This paper explains the evidence as it relates to the United Kingdom and the implications for a country's in...

Corporate enterprise (CE) is in many ways a new subject and yet paradoxically, there is nothing new about the practice of enterprise in larger organisations. This paper has examined the changing nature of hospitality organisations using the lens of ‘entrepreneurship’ rather than that of organisational behaviour and/or strategic management. The work...

Firms in the UK have begun to look at the creation of new businesses as a method to manage the flow of innovations and this has led to increased interest in corporate venturing. Corporate venturing is defined as growing a business from inside out and involves the establishment of new ventures inside existing organisations (Thornhill & Amit, 2001)....

This paper addresses contemporary debates about paradigms in organization studies and uses Burrell and Morgan's (1979) framework to undertake an analysis of the metatheories underlying economic theories in entrepreneurship. The core thesis of the paper is that those studying the subject of entrepreneurship need to reflect more on the underpinning p...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000.

This paper has analysed the impact of the South East Asian crisis on the recruitment strategies of multinational hotel companies. In the paper a brief review of expatriate recruitment is conducted. From this review a number of strategies of recruitment are identified. The paper proceeds to use the method of environmental scanning to analyse how the...

This paper constructs a framework for researching leadership in the hospitality industry and reviews previous approaches to hospitality leadership. Four paradigms were constructed from an analysis of the general field of leadership and are used to represent the underlying perspectives of researchers who operate within them. As a result of this anal...

This paper constructs a framework for researching leadership in the hospitality industry and reviews previous approaches to hospitality leadership. Four paradigms were constructed from an analysis of the general field of leadership and are used to represent the underlying perspectives of researchers who operate within them. As a result of this anal...

This paper has two core objectives. First, it introduces the Critical Incident Technique, explains the method and shows how the method can be used to study entrepreneurial behaviour in the restaurant and café industry. Secondly, the paper reports the initial results of a study of entrepreneurship in the Newcastle upon Tyne restaurant and café indus...

This paper has two core objectives. First, it introduces the Critical Incident Technique, explains the method and shows how the method can be used to study entrepreneurial behaviour in the restaurant and café industry. Secondly, the paper reports the initial results of a study of entrepreneurship in the Newcastle upon Tyne restaurant and café indus...