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Histories of entrepreneurship education

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Entrepreneurship education often appears as a recent innovation shaped by contemporary challenges or zeitgeist. Historical evidence, however, shows it has deeper roots and greater complexity than commonly assumed. This special issue adopts a ‘marketplace’ metaphor to show how supply-push (academic initiatives and pedagogical innovations) and demand-pull (policy agendas, practitioner needs) factors have shaped educational practices across time and place. The four featured articles uncover distinct historical contexts in which entrepreneurship education arose and evolved, challenging the prevailing notion of its recent emergence. Together, these studies demonstrate how earlier practices influenced the ways entrepreneurship is currently taught and understood. Ultimately, this special issue prompts educators and researchers to consider how the past can inform innovative directions for entrepreneurship education moving forward.

Source: Management & Organizational History

DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2025.2485045

Authors: Christian Stutz, Anders Ravn Sørensen, Christoph Viebig

Institutions: University of Jyväskylä, Copenhagen Business School

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Academy of Finland, Emil Aaltosen Säätiö