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In an era defined by volatility, complexity, and uncertainty, educating future-oriented change agents is essential to address pressing societal challenges such as climate change and the transition to a circular economy. These change agents play a pivotal role in driving societal transformation, requiring a mindset and skills suited to navigating complex problems and adapting to environments full of uncertainty. Entrepreneurial education emerges as a critical lever in fostering such capabilities, integrating seamlessly into higher education and lifelong learning contexts to prepare change agents for active, constructive participation in societal transitions.
This book introduces a design-science research approach to entrepreneurial education, emphasizing the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational practices tailored to diverse contexts. Real-life case studies illustrate how the design-science approach has been successfully applied, offering practical insights for educators and researchers aiming to enhance their own research and teaching practices.
By connecting theory to practice, the design-science approach offers a fresh perspective on entrepreneurial education. It not only unpacks the mechanisms behind effective program design but also fosters innovation through continuous, data-driven cycles of collecting and processing feedback. This approach ultimately enables the development of evidence-based entrepreneurial education that prepares change agents capable of driving the necessary societal transformation across contexts.
List of contents
1. Advancing the field of Entrepreneurial Education: Leveraging a Design Science Approach for educating the change agents of the future.- 2. Designing artifacts in entrepreneurial education research.- 3. The Entrepreneurial Educator as an Architect of Effective Entrepreneurial Education: Design and Redesign of the CBL course "innovation Space Project: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Processes".- 4. The Entrepreneurship Education Canvas.- 5. The Entrepreneurial Educational Method: a DSR artifact to support educators in designing entrepreneurial education.- 6. A Two Flows Framework Leveraging Challenge-Based Learning for Entrepreneurial Education: A Design Science Approach.- 7. Embracing failures: Advancing the entrepreneurship education pedagogy through design science approach.- 8. From EntreComp to EntreAct: 16 validated design principles for making people more entrepreneurial (EEE).- 9. Design science approach to building a large university entrepreneurship education ecosystem.- 10. Moving design science research and practice in entrepreneurial education forward.
About the author
Bart Derre is Director at HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ghent, Belgium, and holds the (HOGENT-Xerius) research chair on entrepreneurial learning at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. As Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, he has overseen numerous entrepreneurial education programs. His research, including a Ph.D. from TU Eindhoven (The Netherlands), focuses on the design and implementation of entrepreneurial education that drives meaningful impact.
Yvette Baggen is an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research, specializing in entrepreneurial learning and ecosystems in higher education. Her work empowers students and professionals as change agents, equipping them to tackle real-world challenges. Yvette's research integrates education, entrepreneurship, and societal impact, promoting transformative learning experiences that prepare learners for impactful careers.
