It is widely accepted that the educational system of universities has to provide an academic
environment that may serve as a catalysts for high-technology start-ups. The academic
tradition of entrepreneurship in German-speaking countries is very short. Until recently,
fostering innovations and new product development through entrepreneurship has not been
regarded as a primary task of universities. However, perspectives have changed in this
respect, and there have been numerous attempts to enhance the role of university graduates as
founders of innovative businesses. In this paper, we compare the entrepreneurial intentions of
students at two German-speaking universities (the Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration and the University of Munich) with the corresponding results for a
leading institution in this field: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). We find very
distinct patterns of entrepreneurial spirit in these universities. The results also suggest that the
lower level of founding intentions among students in Munich and Vienna may be attributed to
their less distinctive entrepreneurship education. This leaves a great deal of room for
improvement. (author's abstract)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:3097 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Lüthje, Christian, Franke, Nikolaus |
| Publisher | Inderscience |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219877004000209, http://www.worldscientific.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/3097/ |
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