Again, it is believed that most private universities run more practical and entrepreneurial programmes than public universities and that may increase the entrepreneurial trait of their students.
"You can't create a biotech startup at a Starbucks table with a notebook," says Douglas Crawford, associate director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), an entrepreneurial support programme at the University of California.
Initiated by the Federal Government the Entrepreneurial Regions Programme (ERP) was directed at rebooting East Germany's innovative strength and reviving the declined industrial basis as well as integrating the small technology oriented firms, remnants from GDR research labs into the global economy.
Some large companies have launched entrepreneurial saleswoman programmes, which aim to open up marketing opportunities while simultaneously combatting poverty.
During the last twenty years the German programme family Entrepreneurial Regions has formed a landscape of strategy driven clusters, characterized by networking relationships along the value chain between SME, university and research laboratories.
It is an undeniable fact that business programmes are entrepreneurial oriented.
Van Looy et al. (2011) note that many academic institutions want to foster the entrepreneurial spirit establishing training programmes for business ideas, which educate and train students for entrepreneurship.
More work is needed here to promote the development of entrepreneurial instruction and support programmes towards this goal, helping entrepreneurs identify and pursue objectives critical to sustainability of their ventures.
Stanford University has an (unfrugally named) Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability programme.
Also, incorporating entrepreneurial training into the academic programmes of these institutions has the tendency of improving the entrepreneurial traits of students and thereby, decide to be self-employed.
Drawing on the theory of planned behaviour, this study tests the effect of entrepreneurship programmes on the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of science and engineering students.
