Introducing three seminal literature reviews in the field
Three of the most well-cited articles in the entrepreneurial education field were published with a decade in between each. The first seminal literature review...
Does entrepreneurship education reproduce social inequalities?
New research has explored the possibility that entrepreneurship education could lead to increased feelings of being underprivilegied and less capable among students from lower...
Textbooks as good as experiences shows new impact study
In a new PhD thesis that was defended in December 2016 it was concluded that experientially based entrepreneurial education is no better than textbook...
New impact study explores new definition of ‘entrepreneurial’
In a new Swedish impact study of entrepreneurial education, a new definition of entrepreneurial education was studied in-depth at 19 different primary and secondary...
Some stunning results of entrepreneurial education!
This week we finished a report summarizing the results of our largest impact study so far in entrepreneurial education. It shows some absolutely fantastic...
My PhD thesis done
So, after seven years I am done with my PhD thesis. It became a new educational philosophy grounded in entrepreneurship. In the thesis I...
A ‘value’ and ‘economics’ grounded analysis of six value creation based...
Last week I wrote an article for the 3E ECSB entrepreneurship education conference due in May in Leeds. I was short on time, so...
So what’s the “evidence” for entrepreneurial education?
In a recent question to Swedish National Agency for Education a teacher asked them about the evidence for entrepreneurial education. Sweden supports entrepreneurial education...
Is my dissertation an insult or not?
Summarizing all the feedback I received on my almost final dissertation (a summary can be found here), what made the strongest impression on me was...
Denmark cuts back on the future – takes a yearly 4...
In most large groups of people the focus is on performing here and now. In corporations it is stipulated by the stock market, making...
Do we really need yet another educational philosophy?
Just finalized my PhD thesis for the "end seminar", i.e. the final test before I get the PhD badge. After six years I ended...
Entrepreneurial education – a scholarly field with no future
I will never forget the day I met Dénis Gregoire, an entrepreneurship researcher who deliberately stopped doing research in entrepreneurial education. We met in...
Please help me develop a new educational philosophy! I have four...
After six years of action-based research on entrepreneurial education I am about to finalize my doctoral thesis. It will be about value creation as...
“It’s the teachers fault!” Students attacking their entrepreneurial teachers
We humans like when things go our way. When we don’t end up in unexpected trouble, when we don’t end up as prime target...
Bridging the traditional versus progressive education rift
Two years of writing and testing out my ideas in practice in the municipality of Sundsvall, Sweden, have now taken me to finalize an...
Presenting at a webinar for OECD on value creation as pedagogy
Today I will be speaker at a webinar hosted by OECD, topic is a practitioner paper I have done for OECD on Entrepreneurship in...
Three research-informed ideas hopefully contributing to best-in-Sweden for Sundsvall’s schools in...
Tomorrow I am in Sundsvall talking to around 200 school management people. My task is to give a background on entrepreneurial education / learning,...
How our entrepreneurship students learn and how we can improve assessment...
An intriguing master thesis was completed just before summer by one of our students at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, read it here. The student,...
Slides from Framtidsfrön study and from seminar Göteborgs Stad
Here are some slides from this week's seminars. On Tuesday I presented a study I've done together with Framtidsfrön. The slides are in Swedish....
Slides from biomimetics conference
Tomorrow I am speaker at a conference focusing on biomimetics and interdisciplinary innovation. Here are my slides (in Swedish) from that conference: Gränsöverskridande innovation...