TY - CHAP

T1 - Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Tackle Graduate Youth Unemployment in Developing Economies

T2 - The Role of Action-Oriented Entrepreneurship Training

AU - Dash, Arobindu

AU - Gielnik, Michael

PY - 2022/4/1

Y1 - 2022/4/1

N2 - Unemployment reduction is one of the grand challenges to achieve the sustainable development goals. More specifically, graduate youth unemployment is a rising concern for low and middle-income countries. Accordingly, government and policymakers seek to promote entrepreneurship to address the issue of unemployment through entrepreneurship education and training. Building on this notion, this chapter discusses STEP (student training for entrepreneurial promotion) as an action-oriented entrepreneurship training program. This chapter shows the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of STEP, how the impact of STEP unfolds over time, and the processes that happen during STEP. This chapter also covers cases where STEP has been extended to different academic settings, bringing systemic change in academic curriculums and for different target groups. Finally, this chapter discusses some common challenges when implementing STEP at partner institutions. The chapter concludes that STEP is an effective tool to tackle graduate youth unemployment in developing economies.

AB - Unemployment reduction is one of the grand challenges to achieve the sustainable development goals. More specifically, graduate youth unemployment is a rising concern for low and middle-income countries. Accordingly, government and policymakers seek to promote entrepreneurship to address the issue of unemployment through entrepreneurship education and training. Building on this notion, this chapter discusses STEP (student training for entrepreneurial promotion) as an action-oriented entrepreneurship training program. This chapter shows the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of STEP, how the impact of STEP unfolds over time, and the processes that happen during STEP. This chapter also covers cases where STEP has been extended to different academic settings, bringing systemic change in academic curriculums and for different target groups. Finally, this chapter discusses some common challenges when implementing STEP at partner institutions. The chapter concludes that STEP is an effective tool to tackle graduate youth unemployment in developing economies.

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - Business psychology

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/187c6c54-5180-3420-92aa-cb3ae9ae57ab/

U2 - 10.4018/978-1-7998-9581-7.ch001

DO - 10.4018/978-1-7998-9581-7.ch001

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781799895817

SN - 1799895815

SP - 1

EP - 24

BT - Promoting Entrepreneurship to Reduce Graduate Unemployment

A2 - Katono, Isaac Wasswa

PB - IGI Global Publishing

ER -