Entrepreneurship Education and Disability: An Experience at a Spanish University

Rosa Maria Muñoz, Yolanda Salinero, Isidro Peña and Jesus David Sanchez de Pablo
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Rosa Maria Muñoz: Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla–La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Yolanda Salinero: Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla–La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Isidro Peña: Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla–La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Jesus David Sanchez de Pablo: Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla–La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain

Administrative Sciences, 2019, vol. 9, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: The European Commission considers the following groups of entrepreneurs: females, family businesses, liberal professions, migrants, and seniors. Disabled people are not included, and this paper could, therefore, open up a new field of research and an important issue to be considered among the European Union’s social objectives. The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in Spain provides an entrepreneurship education course, “Entrepreneurship and disability,” for disabled students. It is the first time that a course with these characteristics has been taught at a Spanish University, which signifies that there is no similar research of this nature. Keeping in mind its originality, this study makes an important contribution to the field. The main objective is to analyze whether the motivation to start up a business differs between students with disabilities and those without. We analyzed “before” and “after” data in order to test the potential impact of entrepreneurship education on the students’ entrepreneurial attitude. An analysis of variance with several demographic variables has allowed us to prove that the education that students received, their business experience, and their field of study have significant effects. This statistical test showed no significant differences between disabled and non-disabled students.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; education; disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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