Advancing Entrepreneurship Education in Universities: Concepts and Practices for Teaching and Support

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Boxes
1: Introduction: Advancing Entrepreneurship Education in Universities
	1.1	 Introduction
	1.2	 Advancing the Entrepreneurship Educational Context
	1.3	 About This Book: Teaching Concepts and Practices
		1.3.1	 Seminal Concepts, Highlighting Relevant and Expected practices
		1.3.2	 Four Overarching Questions Addressed Across the Following Six Chapters
		1.3.3	 Five Illustrative Mini Case Studies from the Classroom Environment
		1.3.4	 Fact Boxes
		1.3.5	 A Practical Appendix, Including Worksheets for Educators and the Enterprising Classroom
	1.4	 Supporting and Promoting Entrepreneurship Education: The Practical Appendix
	1.5	 Benefits and Intended Audience
	1.6	 Conclusion
	References
2: Entrepreneurship: Origins and Nature
	2.1	 Introduction
	2.2	 Economic Theory and the Entrepreneur
		2.2.1	 Entrepreneurialism and the Eighteenth Century
		2.2.2	 The Nineteenth Century: Industry and Innovation
		2.2.3	 The Twentieth Century: Theorising Entrepreneurship
	2.3	 Evolved Understandings of Entrepreneurship
	2.4	 The Nature of the Modern Enterprise
	2.5	 Capitalism and Work
		2.5.1	 Debating the Entrepreneurial and Capitalist Relationship
	2.6	 Economic Theory and Entrepreneurship Education
	2.7	 Entrepreneurial Understandings Within Education
	2.8	 Conclusion
	References
3: Teaching Entrepreneurship: International Contexts and Progress
	3.1	 Introduction
	3.2	 Teaching Entrepreneurship
		3.2.1	 What?
		3.2.2	 How?
		3.2.3	 When?
	3.3	 Assessing Entrepreneurship-Related Programmes
	3.4	 International Contexts and ‘Best Practice’
	3.5	 Embedding Entrepreneurship Education in Universities
	3.6	 Conceptualising Entrepreneurialism: The Educational Context
	3.7	 Conclusion
	References
4: Enterprising Universities and Industrial Ecosystems
	4.1	 Introduction
	4.2	 The Enterprising University
		4.2.1	 What Is an Entrepreneurial University?
	4.3	 Striving Towards the Entrepreneurial University
		4.3.1	 The Demands for an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
	4.4	 The Institutional and Industry Nexus
	4.5	 Government Intervention and Entrepreneurship Education
	4.6	 Building Entrepreneurial Legacies
	4.7	 The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Concept
	4.8	 Conclusion
	References
5: The Entrepreneurship Education Stakeholder Within Universities
	5.1	 Introduction
	5.2	 What Is Stakeholder Theory?
	5.3	 The Stakeholder Concept
	5.4	 Stakeholder Recognition Within Higher Education
		5.4.1	 Delivery and Support for Entrepreneurship Education
		5.4.2	 University Support for Enterprise
	5.5	 The Entrepreneurship Education Stakeholder
	5.6	 Encouraging Educational Stakeholder Inclusivity
	5.7	 Conclusion
	References
6: Entrepreneurship Education Futures and Learning Spaces
	6.1	 Introduction
	6.2	 Modernising the University Through Entrepreneurship Education
	6.3	 Learning Environments for Entrepreneurship Education
	6.4	 Digitising and Mobilising Entrepreneurship Education: Empowering Students
	6.5	 Entrepreneurship Education and Collaboration: European Frontiers
		6.5.1	 Entrepreneurship Education Post-Brexit: What Now for the United Kingdom and Europe?
	6.6	 Envisaging Entrepreneurship Education Futures
	6.7	 Conclusion
	References
7: Conclusion: Moving Entrepreneurship Education Forward for Teaching and Support
	7.1	 Introduction
	7.2	 Moving Entrepreneurship Education Forward: Considering a Desired Future
		7.2.1	 Normalise Lateral Thinking
		7.2.2	 Welcome the ‘Wacky’
		7.2.3	 Be the Mentor, ‘Prescribe Not Profess’
		7.2.4	 Underline the Importance of Autonomy
		7.2.5	 Embrace the Process
		7.2.6	 Encourage Student Responsibility
		7.2.7	 Develop the Enterprising Skills
		7.2.8	 ‘Keeping It Real’
		7.2.9	 Asserting the ‘Business Defence’
		7.2.10	 What’s the End Goal? Ascertaining the Student Aspiration
	7.3	 Conceptualising Entrepreneurship Education for All
		7.3.1	 External Data Acquisition
		7.3.2	 Shared Ideas and Practice Implementation
		7.3.3	 Retrospective Research of Entrepreneurship Education Activities
	7.4	 Entrepreneurship Education in Practice: Engaging and Enlightening Students
		7.4.1	 Communication and Institutional ‘Trust’
		7.4.2	 Collaboration
		7.4.3	 HEI-Rooted Innovation
	7.5	 Directing Policy: Affirming Institutional and Individual Ambitions
		7.5.1	 Practitioner Recruitment
		7.5.2	 Outreach Consultancy
		7.5.3	 Personnel Review
	7.6	 Concluding Comments
	References
Appendix