Nascent Student Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Entrepreneurial education and extracurricular programmes have been introduced into universities to respond to student demand for such skills along with the increased recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship as a contributor to economic development. This chapter covers firstly student entrepreneurship as a component of university start-ups (highlighting the role that students play in faculty-led start-ups and entrepreneurship as an alternative to employment); secondly, the type of support provided by universities for start-ups through curriculum-based and extracurricular programmes; thirdly, nascent student technology start-ups (both faculty-led and through entrepreneurial programmes). The implications for entrepreneurship educators, programme organisers and course developers, and business school deans, along with recommendations for future research, are examined and discussed.