Results of entrepreneurship research are integrated into teaching and learning activities

Integrating research results in entrepreneurship training can be a crucial aspect of improving entrepreneurial teaching and learning in general. For example, an explicit demand by management to integrate research results into entrepreneurship education can increase the attractiveness of teaching activities for active researchers, as it provides them with a platform to disseminate their research results and to test new research ideas. Faculty members can also be encouraged to follow up and reflect on their experimentation and innovation in the classroom and to publish on their teaching activities. Such a strategy can contribute to developing and spreading the use of innovative pedagogies and develop adequate teaching tools and methods. Furthermore, as innovative and unconventional entrepreneurship education activities risk reducing academic contents, standards and rigour, combining experiential learning with academic approaches can be one possible solution, for example by including theory-driven learning about entrepreneurship.

Furthermore, integrating research results into entrepreneurship education and training can show the breadth of entrepreneurship. It promotes, for example, discussing entrepreneurship in different contexts such as: business models; forms of ownership; social and societal entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in transition economies or corporate entrepreneurship.

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