Stand up–it’s all about the team? The composition of entrepreneurship teams in entrepreneurship education at a german university

Backs S, Schleef M, Buermann H. Stand up–it’s all about the team? The composition of entrepreneurship teams in entrepreneurship education at a german university. Journal of entrepreneurship education. 2019;22(4).“Team work makes the dream work”–this saying of John C. Maxwell could not be described in a better way especially for creating new business companies. But how does such a team should be structured, especially in the entrepreneurship education in a university context? Is it: “Birds of a feather flock together” or rather “Opposites attract”? Moreover, entrepreneurial traits and the composition of entrepreneurial teams are not investigated as a whole in the academic context so far. To contribute to this research, a first focus is set on entrepreneurship education in general. Therefore, recommended approaches from theory and other studies are compared with the developed concept of an entrepreneurial education program at Bielefeld University that is mostly in accordance with theoretical recommendations. Hence, to identify entrepreneurial traits in the academic context, 43 students took part in a questionnaire within the framework of the “Practice in Entrepreneurship” at Bielefeld University in spring 2018. So, a profile of the personage and motives in entrepreneurship and team behavior were investigated. In addition to the questionnaire, an examination of founding teams in the same “Practice in Entrepreneurship” was conducted. At this juncture, 61 students formed 14 entrepreneurial teams working on a business idea and finally pitching it in front of an expert jury that evaluated and ranked the teams. It was investigated how different attributes like gender, study courses, and age, as well as the team size influence the final ranking. Both the findings concerning the entrepreneurial traits and the results concerning the composition of entrepreneurial teams show much congruence with the existing literature leading to following implications: A successful entrepreneurship education program at a university should consist of theoretically and practically oriented elements involving different external stakeholders. Students taking part in such an entrepreneurship education program show many entrepreneurial traits that should be developed further within this program. The composition of student founding teams should not be predetermined, except for a recommended team size of four to six students

Sustainable Entrepreneurship as a vision for future? - A student survey

Backs S, Buermann H. Nachhaltiges Unternehmertum als Zukunftsvision? – Eine Studierendenbefragung. Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis. 2022;74(2):156.It is not just the current corona pandemic that questions the assumed economic and social stability. Both areas confront new challenges and perceive a variety of drastic changes. Businesses acting on consistent basis however seem to gain significance and closer consideration. A poll of entrepreneurial students is supposed to gauge first impressions of the business leaders of tomorrow.Nicht erst die aktuelle Corona Pandemie wirft die Frage auf, ob das Umfeld, in dem wir leben, wirtschaftlich und gesellschaftlich so stabil ist wie bisher angenommen. Beide Bereiche stehen vor neuen Herausforderungen und spüren vielerorts einschneidende Veränderungen. Nachhaltig agierende Unternehmen scheinen jedoch an Bedeutung zu gewinnen und rücken vermehrt in den Fokus der Betrachtung. Eine Befragung gründungsinteressierter Studierender soll dazu erste Impulse aus der Sicht der Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer von morgen liefern

Entrepreneurship im zeitlichen Verlauf der industriellen Revolutionen - Nachhaltigkeit als Zukunftstrend?

Backs S, Buermann H. Entrepreneurship im zeitlichen Verlauf der industriellen Revolutionen - Nachhaltigkeit als Zukunftstrend? Presented at the G-Forum , Dresden

Transfer and Teaching Entrepreneurship: from the university or aca-demic perspective

Backs S, Buermann H. Transfer and Teaching Entrepreneurship: from the university or aca-demic perspective. Presented at the I²SoS Colloquium, Bielefeld

Adieu Elfenbeinturm: Die Lehre im Gründungsmanagement als ein best-practice Transfer-Lehre-Projekt

Backs S, Schleef M, Buermann H. Adieu Elfenbeinturm: Die Lehre im Gründungsmanagement als ein best-practice Transfer-Lehre-Projekt

Wer, wie, was - wieso, weshalb, warum? Gründungsökosysteme und die Rolle einer Hochschule

Backs S, Buermann H. Wer, wie, was - wieso, weshalb, warum? Gründungsökosysteme und die Rolle einer Hochschule. In: Breithecker V, Hanny-Busch S, eds. Handbuch Hochschul-StartUps. 2023