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Entrepreneurship education is of interest to university students and faculty outside the walls of the business school.  New courses in creativity and venturing in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences are increasingly prevalent on campuses both in the U. S. and in other countries.  At some universities entrepreneurship education is taught through business schools but attracts students from other disciplines. At others, new centers and funded programs seek to embed entrepreneurial approaches in both thinking and action in schools and disciplines outside the business school.  Many of these efforts are experimental, lacking guidance from previous experience on other campuses.
 
This handbook brings together in one volume a collection of papers that describe the philosophy, planning and implementation, and examples of best practices of entrepreneurship education initiatives across the university environment.  The goal of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive guide for entrepreneurship curricula beyond the business school environment.  We seek contributions in three areas:
 
Philosophy & Theory.  Emphasizing philosophies that provide support for the fusion or integration of entrepreneurship and other traditional approaches across the broader university, papers might include:

• how entrepreneurship reinforces liberal arts learning goals
• entrepreneurship as idealizing democracy
• entrepreneurship and free market capitalism
• entrepreneurship contributions to humanity
• the nexus between entrepreneurship and scientific advancement

Planning & Broad Implementation.  Papers that deal with the politics & process of implementing entrepreneurship initiatives outside business schools, such as:

• specific implementation approaches and program initiatives that have been developed on different campuses
• common problems experienced in this process (e.g. defining entrepreneurship, communication process) and solution alternatives
• issues germane to different types of academic environments (e.g. small college versus large university) or target populations within universities (e.g. liberal arts students, women students, African-American students, Hispanic students, science students, etc.)
• measuring performance and the effectiveness of implementation efforts, or assessing how an entrepreneurship curriculum contributes to learning outcomes in other areas of the university

Intersections with Other Disciplines. Fine-grained approaches to implementing entrepreneurship education in major divisions of universities outside business schools, including:

• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Arts and Performing Arts
• Natural & Physical Sciences
• Engineering & Medicine

Within these contributions we seek specific examples of programmatic material used by contributors, such as sample syllabi, cross-disciplinary projects, not-for-profit and social enterprise initiatives, and community outreach beyond the boundaries of the campus, as well as a discussion of successes, learning, and revision ideas developed.
 
Submitted papers will be considered for chapters in an edited volume to be published in 2008 by Edward Elgar.
 
Authors of papers that generate new avenues of thought, and have the potential to contribute significantly to further dialogue in the field, will be invited to a special sponsored conference on entrepreneurship education.  The conference, sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, will be held at Wake Forest University's Calloway School of Business in Winston Salem, North Carolina from November 8-10, 2007, where the authors will have the opportunity to present their work to some of the leaders in their fields.
 
Submitters should send the following:

• Electronic copy of your manuscript in MS Word with a title page listing authors' names, affiliations, and contact information.
• The title page should list one of the three categories, listed above, in which the paper should be considered (Philosophy, Planning, or Intersections).
• A cover letter requesting consideration for the edited handbook and/or special conference.

These materials should be sent via email to:
<x-tab>        </x-tab>Page West
<x-tab>        </x-tab> westgp@wfu.edu
<x-tab>        </x-tab> 336-758-4260 (phone)
<x-tab>        </x-tab> 336-758-6133 (fax)
 
Submissions must be received by August 15, 2007.
 
Key dates to remember:
<x-tab>        </x-tab>August 15, 2007   ~   Submit paper
<x-tab>        </x-tab>November 8-10, 2007   ~   Conference in North Carolina
<x-tab>        </x-tab> 2008   ~   Handbook published
 
Editors for the handbook include
<x-tab>        </x-tab>Page West, Wake Forest University
<x-tab>        </x-tab>Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Wake Forest University
<x-tab>        </x-tab>Kelly G. Shaver, College of Charleston
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