Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective

Garavan, Thomas; O�Brien, Fergal; Power, Clare; Matthews-Smith, Gerardine; Buckley, Joan

Abstract

In this chapter, we propose that EETPs should be understood as a lifelong dynamic process and highlight how entrepreneur knowledge, skills and abilities develop across the lifespan (Bohlmann et al., 2017; Brieger et al., 2021). A lifespan theory perspective proposes that the journey to become an entrepreneur proceeds through various stages starting in preschool, childhood, adolescence, to emerging adulthood and the full spectrum of adulthood (Arnett, 2007; Baltes et al., 2006; Erikson and Erikson, 1998; Liu et al., 2021).

• Acceptance Date: Dec 13, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jun 5, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022-08
• Deposit Date: Apr 29, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 29, 2022
• Publisher: Emerald
• Pages: 335-365
• Book Title: The Emerald Handbook of Work, Workplaces and Disruptive Issues in HRM
• Chapter Number: 18
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-779-420221033
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2867898