The Need for Modification: The Impact of COVID-19 on Pitch Competitions

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on academics. Academic programs that require experiential learning, such as entrepreneurship, were presented with severe problems. At the time, the pandemic hit, Liguori and Winkler (2020) speculated on how entrepreneurship professors would respond to the challenge...

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Published inEntrepreneurship education and pedagogy Vol. 5; no. 4; pp. 686 - 702
Main Authors Smith, Douglass, Muldoon, Jeffrey, Lakshmikanth, Geethalakshmi S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.10.2022
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COVID-19
venture pitch competitions
entrepreneurship pedagogy
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ISSN2515-1274
2515-1274
DOI10.1177/25151274221079119

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Summary:COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on academics. Academic programs that require experiential learning, such as entrepreneurship, were presented with severe problems. At the time, the pandemic hit, Liguori and Winkler (2020) speculated on how entrepreneurship professors would respond to the challenge. Our article is an examination of how COVID-19 has impacted pitch competitions, a vital part of the entrepreneurship curriculum. We found that COVID-19 shut down pitch competitions for a year, and they returned last year using virtual web conferencing technologies such as Zoom. Our findings indicate that COVID-19 caused permanent changes to pitch competitions even though directors and other stakeholders may desire traditional face-to-face interactions.
ISSN:2515-1274
2515-1274
DOI:10.1177/25151274221079119