International Enterprise Education

9 Learning-apprenticeship methodologies

Virtuous relation between international entrepreneurial teaching and entrepreneurial attributes

Luísa Cagica Carvalho, Iara Yamamoto and Adriana Backx Noronha Viana

Introduction

Nowadays entrepreneurship is considered as a key factor to promote economic activity (European Commission, 2003) attending to their capacity to influence positively the fall in unemployment levels (Audretsch, 2002) and to stimulate economic development and employment (Mitra, 2008). Entrepreneurial education assumes a particular role of increasing the entrepreneurial attitudes of people (Potter, 2008). The literature identifies several variables that determine the individual’s decision to start a venture and presents different perspectives ...