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Diamanto Politis. Photo.

Diamanto Politis

Professor, Centre Director

Diamanto Politis. Photo.

Enabling entrepreneurial empowerment through a three-day entrepreneurship camp

Author

  • Gunn-Berit Neergård
  • Lise Aaboen
  • Diamanto Politis

Summary, in English

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a 3-day entrepreneurship camp on nursing students’ empowerment to act entrepreneurially. Data were collected through individual semi-structured interviews with 17 nursing students conducted both before and after the camp. The data also included student drawings, as well as documents and interviews with 10 stakeholder representatives. Our findings show that students had very limited knowledge of entrepreneurship and had disregarded any valuable or natural link between nursing and entrepreneurship before entering the camp. The four changes in the empowerment process are as follows: (a) From ‘Entrepreneurship is not something nurses are supposed to do’ to ‘Nurses are potential actors in entrepreneurial processes’. (b) From ‘Observing problems in practice’ to ‘Nurses can shape healthcare’. (c) From ‘Not knowing how to define problems sufficiently small to act upon’ to ‘Knowing how to approach problem definition’. (d) From ‘Knowing little about the potential steps of realising a solution’ to ‘Knowing the first steps to testing a solution’s feasibility’. Our study provides insights into the meaning of empowerment to act entrepreneurially in the context of an entrepreneurship education for nursing students and has implications for the entrepreneurship education literature for non-business students.

Department/s

  • Entrepreneurship

Publishing year

2022-02-05

Language

English

Pages

658-685

Publication/Series

Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy

Volume

5

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • empowerment
  • entrepreneurship camp
  • nursing
  • non-business students
  • Experiential learning
  • empowerment
  • entrepreneurship camp
  • nursing
  • non-business students
  • experiential learning

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2515-1274