Innovation & Strategy Tracks > Track 20: Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Pedagogies and Student Business Startups

Track Chairs:

• Dr. Jahangir Wasim, Edinburgh Business School, UK
• Dr. Ahmed Tariq, Rabat Business School, UIR, Morocco

Over the last three decades, the rise of entrepreneurship as an academic discipline has resulted in a rise in entrepreneurship courses and programs in the higher education institution (Katz, 2003; 2008; Nabi et al 2016). This phenomenon is due to the acknowledged importance of entrepreneurship in socio-economic development by many stakeholders, including policymakers, academician, and students (Pittaway and Cope, 2007; Fayolle, Verzat & Wapshott, 2017). Corresponding to this progression in educational programmes, entrepreneurship education research has become a field in its own right (Fayolle and Kyrö, 2008, Neck and Green, 2011).

This track addresses the full scope of entrepreneurship education, including traditional lecture formats as well as group work and autonomous student projects. Furthermore, it invites contributions that discuss the creation of student start-ups and the role that a business school can plan in supporting and guiding these activities.

Potential contributions include, but are not limited to:

• General treatments of entrepreneurship education, using a wide view or a narrow view of the topic
• Investigations of specific forms of entrepreneurship education
• Teaching “about” entrepreneurship,
• Teaching “for” entrepreneurship,
• Teaching “through” entrepreneurship,
• Entrepreneurship education course structures, media, and implementations
• Curriculum design
• Teaching approaches,
• Passive learning approaches and active learning approaches
• Experiential learning and learning by doing approaches
• Entrepreneurial pedagogies and learning objectives
• Business idea development
• Entrepreneurial béhavioral

• Entrepreneurial compétences 
• Entrepreneurship vocational training programs
• Reports about successful courses and support activities for student startups

References

Fayolle, A., & Kryö, P. (Eds.). (2008). The dynamics between entrepreneurship, environment and education. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Fayolle, A., Verzat, C., & Wapshott, R. (2016). In quest of legitimacy: The theoretical and methodological foundations of entrepreneurship education research. International Small Business Journal, 34(7), 895-904.

Katz, J. A. (2003). The chronology and intellectual trajectory of American entrepreneurship education 1876-1999. Journal of Business Venturing, 18(2), 283–300.

Nabi, G., Liñán, F., Fayolle, A., Krueger, N., & Walmsley, A. (2017). The impact of entrepreneurship education in higher education: A systematic review and research agenda. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 16(2), 277-299.

Neck, H. M., & Greene, P. G. (2011). Entrepreneurship education: known worlds and new frontiers. Journal of small business management, 49(1), 55-70.

Pittaway, L., & Cope, J. (2007). Entrepreneurship Education A Systematic Review of the Evidence. International Small Business Journal, 25(5), 479-510.