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Entrepreneurship Skill Building

Focusing Entrepreneurship Education on Skills Assessment and Development

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Authors:
  1. Thomas S. Lyons

    1. Gary W. Rollins College of Business, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, USA

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  2. John S. Lyons

    1. College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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  3. Julie A. Samson

    1. Jack & Julie Nadel School of Business & Entrepreneurship, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, USA

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Paradigm Shift in Entrepreneurship Education

    • Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
    Pages 1-18

  3. An Appropriate Response: A Skills Development Framework

    • Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
    Pages 19-37

  4. The RISE of a Clinical Approach to Skills Assessment

    • Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
    Pages 39-69

  5. Applying the Skills Assessment to Entrepreneurship Education

    • Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
    Pages 71-96

  6. The Case of Santa Barbara City College

    • Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
    Pages 97-114

  7. The Case of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

    • Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
    Pages 115-131

  8. Implementing a Skills-Based Curriculum with an Outcomes Management Framework

    • Thomas S. Lyons, John S. Lyons, Julie A. Samson
    Pages 133-150

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 151-181
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About this book

This book explores the sea change in thinking about how to educate students of entrepreneurship, uses extant theory to develop a conceptual model of entrepreneurship skill development, describes an assessment tool for operationalizing this model, discusses how this tool can be utilized to develop entrepreneurship skills, and offers examples from the application of our approach in educational settings. It concludes with implications of this methodology for furthering both entrepreneurship education and the research that shapes it. The authors present an entrepreneurship skills assessment tool, which uses a theory of measurement that breaks from psychometrics (predictive approaches) and honors the volatility and uncertainty that characterizes entrepreneurship. This assessment tool can be used to integrate curriculum and co-curricular activities to ensure skill development. Focusing on a methodology for the measurement and development of entrepreneurship skills, this book will serve as a valuable resource to researchers and students alike.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Gary W. Rollins College of Business, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, USA

    Thomas S. Lyons

  • College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    John S. Lyons

  • 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

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