Abstract
This chapter is based on my original article (Mitchell, 2005), where I attempted to demonstrate (using some then recently developed border-spanning cognition-based entrepreneurship theory), that as a global society we have in certain ways been wrong in our approach to entrepreneurship education, and that as a result, entrepreneurship education as an engine of global value creation might be ‘ready for a tune-up’ (2005: 187). Using an entrepreneurial cognitions-based argument, I argued (based upon my previous cross-cultural research into entrepreneurial expert scripts) (for example, Mitchell et al., 2000, 2002, and others) that international entrepreneurship education is more about creating the border-crossing entrepreneurial cognitions that are universally present in entrepreneurs - based upon developing the same model in a variety of settings - versus trying to develop differing models to match setting variety. Global entrepreneurship can thus be defined to be: the capability to create new and valuable transactions anywhere on the globe (Mitchell, 2003). In the original article, after presenting some brief background, I therefore outlined the relationship between education and value creation, to support the argument that while entrepreneurs are special, creating them is general - that there is, in actuality, a commonly available process for creating the entrepreneurial expertise that has in the past been viewed to be an uncommon and inaccessible process. I then proceeded to present and discuss the international implications of the emerging ‘deliberate-practice school’ of entrepreneurship education for the creation of global entrepreneurs.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy - 2014 |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
Pages | 116-133 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781783471454 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781783471447 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2014 |