The impact of publicly funded entrepreneurship projects led in higher education contexts: A case-study

This paper deals with the assessment of entrepreneurship education outcomes coming from projects led in higher education contexts. In particular, it proposes a project-study in order to identify group-level factors and sub-factors involved in a publicly funded entrepreneurship project, and to capture the corresponding impacts. The methodological approach combines the literature review for the identification of the above mentioned factors and sub-factors with the adoption of a panel of experts for an overall qualitative assessment of project’s impacts. The main findings highlight how the project at hand is considered as highly relevant under different perspectives of analysis. It has proved to be relevant in terms of increasing regional economic growth, improving life and health expectancy as well as living standards, reducing social costs and pollution rates on a regional scale, and increasing corporate performance.