Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Giulio Bosio, Tommaso Minola, Federica Origo, Stefano Tomelleri

   Pages 1-12

3. Structural Changes and Entrepreneurial Human Capital

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Is the Nature of Jobs Changing? The Role of Technological Progress and Structural Change in the Labour Market

      • Giulio Bosio, Annalisa Cristini

      Pages 15-41

   3. Mutual Gains? The Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace

      • Alex Bryson

      Pages 43-62

   4. Entrepreneurs’ Export Orientation and Growth Aspirations: The Moderating Role of Individual Human Capital

      • Joan-Lluís Capelleras, Victor Martin-Sanchez, Josep Rialp, Waleed Shleha

      Pages 63-87

   5. Collaboration and Entrepreneurship Education: Requirements and Perspective

      • Francesco Magni, Alessandra Mazzini

      Pages 89-104

4. Collaboration and Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Entrepreneurship Education as a Service

      • Oleg V. Pavlov, Frank Hoy

      Pages 107-127

   3. Collaborative Practices and Multidisciplinary Research: The Dialogue Between Entrepreneurship, Management, and Data Science

      • Riccardo Fini, Monica Bartolini, Stefano Benigni, Paolo Ciancarini, Angelo Di Iorio, Alan Johnson et al.

      Pages 129-152

   4. What Happened Next? A Follow-Up Study of the Long-Term Relevance and Impact of a Collaborative Research Project

      • Stefano Cirella

      Pages 153-171

   5. Enhancing Collaboration: Does a Game Make a Difference?

      • Mara Grasseni, Roberto Lusardi, Stefano Tomelleri

      Pages 173-192

This book focuses on the specific traits and nature of entrepreneurial human capital and the extent to which it can be stimulated by entrepreneurship education – especially when these activities combine collaborative practices and innovation. It includes a comprehensive collection of articles on how entrepreneurship education can be structured, providing theoretical reflections as well as empirical evidence. As such it contributes to the ongoing debate on the teachability of entrepreneurial skills and the role of innovation and collaboration in the design of educational programs that aim to spread entrepreneurial human capital.

• Collaboration in education
• Collaborative practices
• Competency development
• Designing entrepreneurship courses
• Entrepreneurial human capital
• Entrepreneurship-driven economy
• Entrepreneurship education policy
• Entrepreneurship schools
• Innovation in entrepreneurship education
• Structural change

• Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

  Giulio Bosio

• Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE), University of Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

  Tommaso Minola

• Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods, Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE), University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

  Federica Origo

• Department of Human and Social Sciences, Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE), University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

  Stefano Tomelleri

Giulio Bosio is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His main research interests are in the field of labor economics, applied micro-econometrics and economics of education. His current research is on the effect of entrepreneurial education on academic and labour market performance; product market regulation and job polarization; temporary contracts and wage.


Tommaso Minola is Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering (DIGIP), and co-founder and Director of the Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE) at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Tommaso has been visiting researcher, amongst others, at University of Cambridge (UK) and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). He has also been TOFT Visiting Professor at Jönköping International Business School (Sweden). His research deals with studyinghow the differ
ent dimensions of the entrepreneur, as well as the entrepreneurial processes and outcomes, develop within distinctive contexts of social embeddedness. His articles have been published in leading international academic journals in innovation, entrepreneurship and small business, such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, The Journal of Technology Transfer and R&D Management.

Federica Origo is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Bergamo, Italy, where she coordinates the Bachelor degree in Economics and teaches economics and social institutions in labour markets. She is also board member of the Centre for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE) of the University of Bergamo and appointed professor of personnel economics at the Catholic University of Milan. Her main research interests are in th
e field of labor economics, economics of education, industrial relations and the evaluation of public policies. 

Stefano Tomelleri is associate professor of Sociology in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at University of Bergamo. He is Deputy Director of Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE) at University of Bergamo. His interests of research mainly focus on the study of emotions as simultaneously present in individuals, social structures and interpersonal relationships. He has recently published the book 'Ressentiment - Reflection on Mimetic Desire and Society' (Michigan State University Press, 2015).

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