Policy and entrepreneurship education

Magnus Hoppe ()

Small Business Economics, 2016, vol. 46, issue 1, 13-29

Abstract: The article provides a historic perspective and an overview of policy and practice affecting entrepreneurship education today with a special focus on the recent development in Sweden. When entrepreneurship policy is being implemented in the Swedish educational system, the main effect on entrepreneurship education seems to be growth in an alternative view on entrepreneurship as foremost a means for accomplishing learning through action and practice. The implementation tends to favour the entrepreneurial learning concept over the entrepreneurship concept, where entrepreneurial learning encompasses a multitude of educational practices for developing internal entrepreneurship and enterprising abilities. External entrepreneurship for business venturing is not given priority. The thought tradition withheld in Business schools thus has had little influence on the implementation in Swedish primary and secondary school. Instead, new ideas on entrepreneurship are created outside the business context through experimentation in school teaching practices, where one also can spot an emerging research interest from pedagogy scholars. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

Keywords: Education policy; Entrepreneurship education; Entrepreneurial learning; European Union; Sweden; I28; I21; J24; L26; J23; M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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