Education for entrepreneurship and innovation: “Management capabilities for sustainable growth and success”

Abstract

Entrepreneurship and innovation education has derived fromestablished university curriculum and the context is set of concepts and tools usedin the corporate world. The challenge of transforming a start-up company into abusiness success needs different capabilities. It goes beyond the development ofan idea and writing-up a comprehensive business plan. This study analysed over200 technology-driven companies which have been created under the formalrequirement of a business plan competition since 1996. The objective wasto identify drivers for innovation and success. From the results, an agenda ofentrepreneurial and innovation education was derived and is discussed.