Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions

Entrepreneurship is a worldwide phenomenon with economic growth across the globe positively impacted by the emergence of new and innovative business start-ups. These new small businesses play a significant role in job creation, influencing politicians to recognize and support entrepreneurial start-up activity due to its positive contribution to the economy. Indonesia concerns promoting entrepreneurship to all people in order to develop successful entrepreneurs. Despite several entrepreneurship programs are developed by government and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to support this entrepreneurship movement, very little is known about effectiveness of entrepreneurship programs' implementation. Therefore this study will evaluate to what extent the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in Indonesia. This research uses case study methods and will be carried out in two stages. The first stage is descriptive and evaluative phase. Here the research will focus on mapping of existing learning and institutional supports within HEIs. Data exploration regarding learning process within HEIs will be evaluate from internal perspective and external perspectives in order to get better understanding of learning experiences that support to become successful entrepreneurs. The second stage is explanatory phase, this stage lead to discover, develop the concepts, categories, and propositions from the phenomena to develop entrepreneurial learning theory. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.