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Offers a comprehensive treatment of entrepreneurship skills, as opposed to most books on this subject that focus on some subset of the requisite skills for entrepreneurship success
Introduces a new tool for assessing entrepreneurship skills that is not predictive, allowing for action to be taken toward developing skills
Provides clear examples of the use of the tool in academic settings
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Gary W. Rollins College of Business, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, USA
Thomas S. Lyons
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College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
John S. Lyons
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Jack & Julie Nadel School of Business & Entrepreneurship, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, USA
Julie A. Samson
About the authors
Thomas S. Lyons is the Clarence E. Harris Chair of Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. His research interests are entrepreneurship skills measurement and development, the relationship between entrepreneurship and community economic development and social entrepreneurship.
John S. Lyons is the founding Director of the Center for Innovation in Population Health and a Professor of Health Management and Policy in the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky USA. He has dedicated his career to creating strategies that effectively represent under-represented populations in policy decision-making.
Julie Samson is an entrepreneurial educator and Executive Director of the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Santa Barbara City College, where she also formerly served as Director of the regional Small Business Development Center and the Center for International Trade and Development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurship Skill Building
Book Subtitle: Focusing Entrepreneurship Education on Skills Assessment and Development
Authors: Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77920-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77919-1Published: 22 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77922-1Published: 23 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77920-7Published: 21 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Management