Entrepreneurship Education: A road to success Contents List of acronyms and abbreviations ............................................... 5 Entrepreneurship Education: A road to success ............................. 7 1 Introduction ....................................................................... 13 1.1 The aims and objectives of entrepreneurship education ................................ 13 1.2 The main forms of entrepreneurship education ........................................... 13 1.3 Why is it important to measure impact? ..................................................... 14 1.4 Who benefits from impact measurement? ................................................... 14 1.5 This study ............................................................................................. 15 1.6 This report ............................................................................................. 16 2 How entrepreneurship education is expected to impact ..... 17 2.1 Introduction ........................................................................................... 17 2.2 The impacts of entrepreneurship education ................................................ 17 2.3 A 8theory of change9 for entrepreneurship education .................................... 18 3 The impact of national and regional entrepreneurship education strategies .......................................................... 21 3.1 Introduction ........................................................................................... 21 3.2 The objectives of entrepreneurship education strategies ............................... 26 3.3 Impact on the individual student ............................................................... 28 3.4 Impacts on teachers ............................................................................... 35 3.5 Impacts on institutions ............................................................................ 37 3.6 Impacts on the economy ......................................................................... 40 3.7 Impacts on society .................................................................................. 42 4 The impact of institutional changes prioritising entrepreneurship education ............................................... 44 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................... 44 4.2 The objectives of institutional changes prioritising entrepreneurship education 47 4.3 Impact on the individual student ............................................................... 49 4.4 Impact on institutions ............................................................................. 50 4.5 Impact on the economy and society .......................................................... 53 5 The impact of individual entrepreneurship education measures and initiatives .................................................... 56 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................... 56 5.2 The objectives of individual entrepreneurship education measures ................. 58 5.3 Impact on the individual student ............................................................... 60 5.4 Impact on economy and society ................................................................ 67 6 How can the impact of entrepreneurship education be measured? ......................................................................... 74 6.1 What methods and tools can be used to measure what type of impact? .......... 74 6.2 Measuring impact of entrepreneurship education: 14 points for consideration .. 78 7 Key lessons learnt .............................................................. 84 7.1 The evidence base for the impact of entrepreneurship education ................... 84 7.2 What type of input leads to what impact? ................................................... 87 7.3 Maximising the impact of entrepreneurship education: Lessons learnt ............ 89 Annex 1 Work steps carried out ............................................... 92 Annex 2 The cases informing Chapter 5 ................................... 98 Annex 3 Sources .................................................................... 104