Imagine there’s no competitions: a detox re-description of entrepreneurship and its education

Martin Lackéus

Chapter 4 in Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy - 2025, 2025, pp 73-92 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Imagine entrepreneurship education with no business competitions, no student business ideas, no money-making challenges and no billionaire role models. Could it really exist? This chapter aims to falsify the established view of entrepreneurship and its education through a research-informed investigation of its antithesis. Many alternative approaches have been identified. Teachers could let students cooperate with external people instead of competing with each other. Teachers could let students take engaged action instead of getting stuck in ideation. Teachers could let the real world inspire students instead of letting celebrity entrepreneurs come in to share their war stories. Such a change could broaden the impact and relevance of entrepreneurship education. How teachers present what it means to be entrepreneurial has a big impact on who, and how many, choose to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Stereotypic views of entrepreneurship and one-size-fits-all pedagogy make many students conclude: “Entrepreneurship is not for me.”

Keywords: Business and Management; Teaching Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035325795.00012 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22993_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().