Student Entrepreneurship Education: Cultivating the Next Generation of Innovators in the AI Era
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "Technology Enhanced Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2027 | Viewed by 139
Special Issue Editors
Interests: higher education internationalization (Sino-foreign cooperative institutions); research-led learning and teaching; future university; student-centered education; student transition; qualitative research methodology; organizational change; institution theory; educational leadership
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Interests: entrepreneurial decision-making; entrepreneurial interventions in AI era; entrepreneurial mindset development; responsible digital innovation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the global innovation landscape, presenting unprecedented opportunities for engineering students to translate technical expertise into impactful entrepreneurial ventures. However, translating technical innovation into sustainable, market-ready solutions remains a complex challenge, requiring interdisciplinary collaboration, adaptive pedagogies, and robust evaluation frameworks. There is an urgent need for research that illuminates how entrepreneurship education can be reimagined to nurture the next generation of innovators in this AI-driven era.
This Special Issue, titled "Student Entrepreneurship Education: Cultivating the Next Generation of Innovators in the AI Era", will showcase papers that advance our understanding of how to design, implement, and evaluate entrepreneurship education programs that empower students to thrive in a technology-intensive world. We seek to explore innovative models, evidence-based metrics, and AI-augmented approaches that foster the technical, entrepreneurial, and collaborative skills essential for success.
We therefore invite papers that address this topic in a timely manner. This Special Issue is organized around the following themes:
Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Education Development: Integration Paths and Synergistic Effects:
This theme relates to effective integration models for interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education, focusing on how engineering disciplines can synergize with business, design, and social sciences in real-world projects. Submissions should examine the mechanisms that enhance students' technological innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities, as well as strategies to overcome the institutional barriers and foster market-oriented thinking for technology commercialization.
Success Indicators and Metrics for Entrepreneurship Education
This theme relates to the need for multi-level, context-aware evaluation metrics. Submissions should investigate how to measure both short-term outcomes (e.g., project quality) and long-term impacts (e.g., startup growth, industry innovation) and explore the relative importance of financial versus non-financial indicators while accounting for the unique characteristics of engineering entrepreneurship, such as the time lag between innovation and commercialization.
AI-Augmented Entrepreneurship Education
This theme relates to the transformative potential of AI-driven tools in enhancing entrepreneurial capabilities. Submissions should compare AI methods (e.g., market analysis, automated prototyping, AI-mentoring) with traditional approaches, explore how real-time data analytics can optimize program design, and examine the scalability and ethical challenges (e.g., algorithmic bias, data privacy) of integrating AI into entrepreneurship education, as well as its role in bridging technical knowledge and entrepreneurial skills.
Effectiveness and Impact of Entrepreneurial Teaching Interventions
This theme relates to the differential impact of diverse entrepreneurial interventions, from training and mentoring to accelerator programs and government initiatives. Submissions should explore how psychological and behavioral interventions influence entrepreneurial decision-making and seek to identify the boundary conditions that determine the effectiveness of these interventions for different student groups.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Xiaojun Zhang
Dr. Tong He
Dr. Tong Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AI-augmented entrepreneurship education
- effectiveness and impact of entrepreneurial teaching interventions
- success indicators and metrics for entrepreneurship education
- interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education
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