ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: WHAT DO THE MOST RELEVANT PAPERS SAY? LITERATURE REVIEW AND RESEARCH AGENDA

Abstract

Aim of the study: this article aims to analyze the current literature in entrepreneurship education, identifying main topics and trends for future studies. Methodology: the study adopted a Systematic Literature Review methodology, implementing a ranking algorithm to organize the relevance of a sample of 934 studies on entrepreneurship education. Main results: with the algorithm, 54 articles corresponding to 50% of the total volume of cumulative mean citations were identified in the whole sample, which allowed contents analysis and an organization of topics and trends. Nine main groups were identified, with a great concentration of works on the topic "entrepreneurial intention". Three research horizons to be explored emerged from the analysis: (i) entrepreneurship education and new approaches within the classroom; (ii) the perspective of entrepreneurship ecosystems in education and students as actors in the educational process; (iii) emerging issues such as culture, gender and social affairs. Theoretical / methodological contributions: the work contributes by presenting a differentiated method to define the relevance of articles in bibliometric studies, a method not found in previous reviews on entrepreneurship education. In addition, the results emerged as thought-provoking for robust studies, such as qualitative studies that allow the identification of relevant moderators. Relevance / originality: besides the methodological differential, the work shows itself original by the organization of the various works in entrepreneurship teaching, being able to be a reference guide about fundamental works for different researchers in the subject at the beginning of their work.