As AI is changing how entrepreneurship fundamentally works, this paper offers a framework for bringing AI into entrepreneurship education through a familiar structure: learning about,...
The Role Model Effect Is Real
Female role models can raise entrepreneurial confidence and make startup careers feel more attainable for women students in higher education.
Resilience Is Not What We Think It Is
Resilience is not a direct outcome of entrepreneurship education. It emerges when education builds the psychological resources that shape how students respond to challenges.
It’s not risky if you know what you’re doing
Students who feel more financially capable also feel more entrepreneurial, suggesting that the issue may not be a lack of willingness to take risks, but a lack of understanding of what those risks actually are.
The Problem with the Entrepreneurial Mindset
We ask entrepreneurs to master everything at once. This study proposes that instead of one all-encompassing entrepreneurial mindset, there are four distinct ways of thinking...
The Many Lives of an Entrepreneur
The Many Lives of an Entrepreneur maps four life-course paths into entrepreneurship and shows which trajectories lead to lasting outcomes.
Why Entrepreneurship Just Won the Nobel Prize
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded for explaining how innovation-driven entrepreneurship turns stagnation into long-term economic growth. By placing creative destruction at...
What Students Need to Survive the Entrepreneurial Learning Curve
Entrepreneurial learning works best when students have the inner resources to stay steady through uncertainty, hopeful through setbacks, and confident enough to try again.
Why Students Who Want To Start Businesses Still Don’t
This study of German students shows that while many say they’d like to start a business, far fewer take any concrete steps. The main brakes...
Stop Asking Entrepreneurs What They Think
When we ask entrepreneurs how they think, we usually get stories – not evidence. This study replaces self-reports with real-world decision tests that reveal what entrepreneurs actually do when faced with uncertainty.
Do What You Love! But Only for the Right Reasons
When your motivation comes from curiosity and freedom, entrepreneurship boosts your wellbeing. But when it’s driven by money or status, it can quietly make you...
Measuring What Matters
Entrepreneurship education has long measured success by counting new ventures or business plans. This study shows how assessment can instead reveal how students actually develop the skills and mindsets that make entrepreneurship possible in the...
Teaching the Future Before It Arrives
Blending science fiction with entrepreneurship education helps students imagine and prepare for radically different futures – not just extrapolate from the present. This study shows...
When Students Design Their Own Learning
A six-year experiment in a rural U.S. college shows how entrepreneurship education can be reimagined when students help design their own learning.
An Activist Turn in Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurship education must stop treating sustainability and justice as electives. This paper argues for activist pedagogies that bake in purpose at the core, equipping students...
An Unexpected Way To Use AI in Entrepreneurship Education
To help students grasp entrepreneurial mindsets in a more engaging, memorable way, AI-generated comics were used in a large undergrad course – with mixed but enlightening results.
From Secondary School to Startups
Turns out entrepreneurship isn’t necessarily just a university thing. A Danish school reform shows that early exposure to entrepreneurship boosts startup rates and nudges students...
Why Rebels Build Startups — and Rule-Followers Don’t
Some people break the rules to make things better — and those people are more likely to become entrepreneurs. But if they believe too strongly in always doing things by the book, they might never...
Rethinking Who Fits the Mould in Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurship education may still lean on masculine ideals, but educators and students are increasingly aware of this — and some are finding ways to broaden...
What The Nordics Are Doing Right in Entrepreneurship Education
Nordic countries take entrepreneurship education seriously — and it starts with how they train teachers. By embedding entrepreneurial pedagogy in teacher education, they cultivate classrooms that value creativity, risk-taking, and autonomy.
How Educators Apply Design Thinking to Entrepreneurship Education
Design thinking may be everywhere in entrepreneurship education, but it’s not always used the same way. This study explores how educators across Europe are interpreting...
Why Ecosystems Aren’t Enough
In one of entrepreneurship education’s most influential studies, Liñán, Urbano, and Guerrero showed that it’s not flashy start-up hubs or government policies that drive entrepreneurial ambition — it’s personal attitude and belief in one’s own...
Untangling the Threads of Entrepreneurship Education Research
By reviewing over 150 studies, this influential paper brought clarity to the messy world of entrepreneurship education research — showing that how we teach matters...
Making Entrepreneurship Feel Doable
This seminal study helped move entrepreneurship education from assumption to evidence, showing that well-designed enterprise programmes can shift how high school students perceive the feasibility and desirability of starting a business.
Employability and Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurship education doesn’t just prepare students to start businesses — it also makes them more employable by teaching adaptability, problem-solving, and resilience.
Who is Qualified to Teach Entrepreneurship?
Many educators don’t feel qualified to teach entrepreneurship, seeing it as too vague, too corporate, or just “not for them.” But the real challenge isn’t who can teach it — it’s how we help more...
The Skill of Seeing What Others Miss
Being able to spot entrepreneurial opportunities isn’t just luck or instinct — it’s a skill that can (and should) be taught, with the right mix...
When does Entrepreneurship Education Actually Work?
Making entrepreneurship education compulsory doesn’t guarantee it will stick. Too early, and students tune out. Too late, and they’ve moved on. Taught poorly, and it’s wasted. The key isn’t whether we teach it — it’s...
The Actual Skills You Need for Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Introductory entrepreneurship courses can unintentionally increase overconfidence, particularly in male students, while female students tend to show more realistic self-assessments. This gap suggests a need...
Overconfidence in Entrepreneurship Students
Introductory entrepreneurship courses can unintentionally increase overconfidence, particularly in male students, while female students tend to show more realistic self-assessments. This gap suggests a need for entrepreneurship programmes that build balanced self-efficacy across genders.
