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    The impact of climate entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions: a university-wide climate entrepreneurship programme.


    McQuillan, Deirdre and Gavigan, Sylvia (2024) The impact of climate entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions: a university-wide climate entrepreneurship programme. Irish Journal of Management, 43 (1): 4. pp. 39-58. ISSN 1649-248X

    Abstract

    Scholars are grappling with what educational and pedagogical approaches are needed to create sustainable entrepreneurs able to cope with sustainability challenges. This paper explores the impact of a student-focused climate entrepreneurship education initiative (CEE) in Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin). The paper draws on models and frameworks in the literature that integrate programme objectives and pedagogical methods with impact. The paper addresses two key questions. Firstly, how are students impacted by CEE in terms of the affectedness, skills development and the intention to start a climate enterprise. The second question asks how different types of interventions in CEE influence student impact. The study contributes to the emerging body of literature on sustainability enterprise education (SEE) by firstly, showing interventions needed to embed climate impact into a customer value proposition; secondly, suggesting a simplicity paradox for stronger SEE impact; and thirdly, offering insights for designing CEE programmes for university-wide impact.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Sustainability entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurial intentions and behaviour; climate;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 20929
    Identification Number: 10.2478/ijm-2024-0013
    Depositing User: IAM School of Business
    Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2025 09:53
    Journal or Publication Title: Irish Journal of Management
    Publisher: Irish Academy of Management
    Refereed: Yes
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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