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Keywords: Egypt, Entrepreneurship, Online Teaching, Science and Technology Degrees, Small Business
Enterprises, Students Attitudes
Investigating the Impact of
Entrepreneurship Online
Teaching on Science and
Technology Degrees on
Students Attitudes in
Developing Economies:
The Case of Egypt
Hatem El-Gohary, Birmingham City University, UK
Simon O’Leary, Regent’s College London, UK
Paul Radway, Birmingham City University, UK
ABSTRACT
This paper investigates the inluence of entrepreneurship online teaching in science and technology degree
courses in developing economies and the impact of this teaching on students’ attitudes towards starting a
small business enterprise (SBE). An organised examination of the literature related to entrepreneurship
teaching is discussed and illustrated to provide an archive of past research points to explore and develop a
clear understanding about the inluence of entrepreneurship online teaching to science and technology degree
students in developing economies (Egypt). Based on this review, the study validates a conceptual model utilis-
ing a positivist research philosophy with a quantitative approach, in which data is collected based on survey
strategy through questionnaires to address different levels of the study. The indings indicated that there is
very few research studies related to entrepreneurship teaching in developing countries and no single study
related to entrepreneurship teaching in Egypt. The study provides great beneits for entrepreneurs, policy
makers, practitioners, researchers, and educators by providing an understanding for all the issues related to
teaching entrepreneurship on science and technology degree courses. This paper beneits researchers and
scholars towards suitable future research studies which in turn will contribute to the related accumulated
knowledge in the ield.
DOI: 10.4018/ijom.2012010103