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Introduction : From Fundamentals to Advances in Crowdfunding Research and Practice
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Eating, feeding, and feeling: emotional responsiveness mediates longitudinal associations between maternal binge eating, feeding practices, and child weight
Putting “entrepreneurial finance education” on the map
Macht, SA ORCiD: 0000-0002-8099-4871Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to bring attention to “entrepreneurial finance education”, an
aspect of entrepreneurship education that is widely taught but neglected by the educational literature.
It does so by exploring how social capital, a key resource for entrepreneurs, can be incorporated into
entrepreneurial finance education.
Design/methodology/approach – By drawing upon social capital literature in the context of
funding sources for entrepreneurs, the paper highlights the significance of bonding and bridging social
capital for entrepreneurial finance.
Findings – The review of relevant literature confirms the importance of social capital for
entrepreneurial finance. The existence of bonding social capital, which refers to a trusting relationship
between entrepreneurs and financiers, allows entrepreneurs to access their financiers’ resources
(e.g. contacts, knowledge, reputation, further funds) through bridging social capital.
Practical implications – Students of entrepreneurial finance need to understand the role that both
facets of social capital play in the context of fundraising. This paper proposes ways of incorporating
social capital into various approaches to entrepreneurial finance education. This allows educators
to include relevant topics and research into their syllabi, while enabling students to study a crucial, yet
under-represented, topic in entrepreneurial finance education.
Originality/value – Given that entrepreneurial finance education has to date been neglected in the
educational literature, this paper begins to address a huge void. It clarifies potential contents of
entrepreneurial finance education, demonstrates the importance of including social capital in the
education of entrepreneurial finance students and suggests practical ways of achieving this
“Authentic alignment”: a new framework of entrepreneurship education
Macht, SA ORCiD: 0000-0002-8099-4871Purpose – This paper seeks to address an underdeveloped aspect of entrepreneurship education (EE),
which is still criticised for not explicitly linking educational practice with established educational
theory. As such, the purpose of this paper is to propose a novel educational framework – Authentic
Alignment - that the authors evolved based on their own EE practice, as well as two major educational
theories.
Design/methodology/approach – A review of a range of conceptual educational frameworks in EE
revealed a gap in the current literature, referring to the fact that practice is not sufficiently linked to
sound educational theory. The paper combines a range of educational theories – predominantly
Constructive Alignment (CA) and Authenticity – to develop a novel conceptual framework, termed
"Authentic Alignment". The discussion of Authentic Alignment draws upon EE literature, as well as
student feedback and the reflections and experiences of the practitioners and academics involved in
delivering a higher education unit underpinned by Authentic Alignment.
Findings – It is argued that Authentic Alignment coherently and explicitly links educational practice
to major established educational theories and as such presents a valuable approach to education
through entrepreneurship as it aligns authentic approaches to instruction, learning and assessment
that strike a balance between resembling and being relevant for real entrepreneurial activity.
Practical implications – The paper invites educators to draw upon Authentic Alignment for their
own entrepreneurship units/programmes by customising the specific approaches to their own
requirements, while retaining the underlying principle of constructively aligned authentic education.
Originality/value – By explicitly linking EE to CA and Authenticity, this paper introduces a novel
educational framework that provides a valuable structure for education through entrepreneurship. The
customisability of Authentic Alignment, however, suggests a wider applicability and is thus valuable
also for education about and for entrepreneurship.Associated Grant:Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for BMAF (Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance) Teaching Research and Development Grant 2009/2010 (United Kingdom)
Financing the operations of social innovation projects through Crowdfunding
Chapman, GR ORCiD: 0000-0002-6832-7320; Macht, SA ORCiD: 0000-0002-8099-4871The aim of this paper is to review the potential use of the emerging generation of Hybrid Cargo Airships (HCAs) to provide logistic support for those engaged in combating bush fires – a form of natural disaster that impacts many thousands of people across Australia on an annual basis
To eat or to breathe? The answer is both! Nutritional management during noninvasive ventilation
Correlation between the severity of critically ill patients and clinical predictors of bronchial aspiration
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