The journal Entrepreneurship Education recently published five articles in Volume 4, Issue 3. This journal is the first English academic journal concerning entrepreneurship education in the Asia Pacific region. It is jointly founded by UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education at Zhejiang University and Springer.

Prof. Xiaozhou Xu, the Chair-holder of UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education at Zhejiang University, serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal. Arne Carlsen, former director of UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning, serves as the associate editor. Members of the editorial board are from universities and institutes in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Denmark, India, Croatia and other countries.

This journal is dedicated to exchanging the latest academic research and practical findings on various aspects of entrepreneurship education. It serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among academic researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, in order to explore practical experience and summarize theoretical reflections. The journal draws on high-quality work in social sciences, particularly in education, with an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed approach. The journal primarily focuses on entrepreneurship education with a wide spectrum of sub-fields such as innovative education, technical and vocational education and training, maker education, lifelong learning and skill development, social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial universities, curriculum and instruction, policy and governance. It welcomes original research, review article, book review, and other types of manuscripts based on the method of international and comparison, policy analysis, case study, quantitative and qualitative study, etc.

Abstracts of the Five Articles

Students’ perception on the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education programs in China

Chenxin Yu & Weihui Mei

In the past two decades, entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) in China have witnessed a tremendous development. However, very limited study has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of EEPs in China. This study constructed a four-factor conceptual framework to evaluate students’ perception about the design and implementation of EEPs, as well as students’ perception about their impact on the promotion of entrepreneurship knowledge and competence, the possibilities of venture creation in future and the inclination of entrepreneurial behaviors. The result showed that most students gave an eclectic evaluation of EEPs, students’ evaluation of EEPs in three universities differed significantly and could be affected by demographic factors.

Using adaptive comparative judgment to promote the entrepreneurial mindset and visual literacy in the engineering technology classroom

Lisa Bosman, Scott Bartholomew, Sarah Huber & Anita Amiaya

The development of the entrepreneurial mindset is not only important for engineering graduates who desire to start a new company, but also important for graduates who desire to get a job within a company. Engineering graduates can use their entrepreneurial mindset to create optimal designs and bring value to a company, but future employers only pay attention when that value is communicated efficiently. The purpose of this study is to showcase one approach for growing the entrepreneurial mindset and using visual literacy to effectively communicate the value proposition in an engineering classroom using the pedagogical ‘learning by evaluation’ approach of adaptive comparative judgment. The findings show a positive response from student participants.

The development of environmental science agency for primary school students through an environmental entrepreneurship intervention programme

Antigoni Komodiki, Alexandros Charalambides & Andri Ioannou

The development of environmental science agency (ESA) is considered very important for the sustainability and conservation of the environment and the safeguarding of the cultural heritage. ESA consists of three components: knowledge, role development and agency about the environment and the current issues affecting it. This mixed study was designed to explore how an environmental entrepreneurship intervention programme with primary school students can promote the development of their ESA. The results indicate the development of knowledge and roles components, while the third component, agency, seems to diminish. The results of this study seem to be suggesting that late childhood is a good period to invest in the development of ESA.

Entrepreneurship education in Indonesian higher education: mapping literature from the Country’s perspective

Ria Tristya Amalia & Harald F. O. von Korflesch

Entrepreneurship education has become an important and fast-growing research area contributing to understanding and acknowledging global and national trends and developing future educational policies and actions. From the country’s perspective, the development of entrepreneurship education in Indonesia is relatively recent. This study aims to serve as an initial proposition by mapping some current states concerning Indonesian entrepreneurship education. By using mapping literature methodology, this study has identified and analyzed 31 articles concerning Indonesian entrepreneurship in higher education (2010–2019). The results showed that major entrepreneurship education program provisions and implementation are centralized in Java Island, Indonesia. Another notable finding is that mentoring or education through entrepreneurship are the most recent and emerging entrepreneurial type in Indonesia.

The design logic and development enlightenment of American social entrepreneurship curriculum

Chao Yang

Curriculum is the key to understanding social entrepreneurship education activities. This study summarized the social entrepreneurship courses of four American universities. The courses are clear social value-oriented, curriculum content presents a situation of multi-disciplinary intersection, curriculum form focuses on experiential participation, and curriculum evaluation system tends to be diversified and standardized, which provides an effective guarantee for the cultivation of social entrepreneurs.

We sincerely invite researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship education to submit to our journal.

Electronic ISSN:2520-8152, Print ISSN:2520-8144.

For more information, please contact:

Associate Editor:

Hao Ni, nh@zju.edu.cn

Assistant Editor:

Nian Wan, 470396996@qq.com