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...
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 the centre of the story, the laureates show why new...
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 are surprisingly simple: not spotting viable opportunities and feeling they...
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...
The Bumpy Reality of Becoming an Entrepreneur
Students’ entrepreneurial identity and intent don’t develop in neat upward curves. Even with the support of enterprise education, the process is messy, emotional, and riddled...
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...
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...
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...
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 of knowledge, alertness, and creativity, reinforced through hands-on learning.
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...
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.
Maintaining Confidence in the Face of Realistic Challenges
Entrepreneurship training has its ups and downs, and maintaining students’ self-belief is key.
