Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Capabilities to Meet the Global Challenges of the 21st Century

The World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) report, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs provides specific recommendations for the academic, public, private and non-profit sectors to collaborate in supporting the development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, in which education is a key driver. The report highlights the importance of entrepreneurship education for developing the skills, attitudes and behaviours necessary to create jobs, generate economic growth, advance human welfare and stimulate innovation to address global challenges. The report provides a landscape of entrepreneurship education practices across the globe covering youth (with a focus on disadvantaged youth), higher education (focusing on high growth entrepreneurship) and social inclusion (with a focus on marginalized communities). This is the first time entrepreneurship education has been considered in such a comprehensive manner.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship,education, policy, growth, innovation, youth, social inclusion, global

JEL Classification: M13, A20, I20, I21, H52

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Wilson, Karen E. and Vyakarnam, Shai and Volkmann, Christine and Mariotti, Steve and Rabuzzi, Daniel, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Capabilities to Meet the Global Challenges of the 21st Century (April 29, 2009). World Economic Forum: A Report of the Global Education Initiative, April 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1396704 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1396704