Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship in Higher Education 

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Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship in Higher Education deals with policy, practice and mindset of entrepreneurship education.

For many years, it has been the general view that entrepreneurs are born that way – that entrepreneurship is innate and cannot be taught (or learned) and is, therefore, a subject unsuited to higher education. The logic seemed to follow: an entrepreneur is just naturally an entrepreneur, and studying entrepreneurship, therefore, is a meaningless enterprise. Borrowing Nike’s slogan, entrepreneurs just do it.

But in recent years, a complete reversal of thinking in higher education has occurred. Indeed, entrepreneurs, it is claimed, are made, not born. In other words, entrepreneurship can be learned. As such, entrepreneurship is a subject worthy of—and actually necessary in—higher education.

Subsequently, higher education institutions, at all levels and apparently in most countries around the world, have embraced the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship with fervour. Witness, for example, the growth of entrepreneurship centres, new venture incubators, and business plan competitions on college and university campuses. Note how entrepreneurship now figures in discussions about the role of higher education. And reflect on the causal link between entrepreneurship training and economic development, which is often articulated.

This book, therefore, reflects this switch in higher education from if to how. That is to say, it veers away from debates about the legitimacy of entrepreneurship teaching and learning in higher education towards discussions about the efficacy of entrepreneurship teaching and learning in higher education. And indeed, for the book, we as editors sought chapters that explored the teaching and learning of entrepreneurship within the domain of higher education and with an emphasis on learning. We welcomed chapters from all scientific disciplines, and which followed any methodological tradition.