A Field in Flux: Trends and Opportunities in Entrepreneurship Education

The past decade has seen a massive increase in entrepreneurship education at the graduate and undergraduate level. Yet, despite the flowering of new classroom and co-curricular offerings, key questions remain in terms of what entrepreneurship means and how it can (or should) be translated to academic contexts. For example, prior academic research examines the impact of classroom education on venture formation, yet many educators today emphasize entrepreneurship in terms of mindset and critical thinking. How might this broader conceptualization affect the design and delivery of classes? Similarly, questions around appropriate topics and templates, emerging technologies and experiential learning, integration with broader campus ecosystems, and more broadly how to promote “frame-breaking” behavior in a traditional classroom context are hotly debated in the literature. In this symposium, we bring together a group of entrepreneurship scholars and educators to examine the state of a field in flux, with the goal of facilitating a discussion among scholars engaged in studying or practicing entrepreneurship education.