Entrepreneurship Education: A road to success other characteristics of the alumni-founded firms, such as the sector they are active in, and the innovativeness of these sectors etc. In these cases, results from the surveys to inform impact measurement are compared to relevant data from national statistics (e.g. 8Impact. 50 Years of Young Enterprise9 (UK); 8Practice makes perfect?9 (SE)). Other studies use external databases, e.g. in the MIT case study, databases Compustat and Dun & Bradstreet for data on public and private companies respectively. Impact on Society is rarely measured, given the methodological challenges of demonstrating a link between a programme and societal change. Nonetheless, there have been attempts to measure and to prove impact on societal level. The study
