In the digital age, entrepreneurship is now more in demand than ever before. However, digital entrepreneurship is not limited to holding online meetings, paperless office or communication on social media. Rather, it must be seen as a holistic approach to thinking that encompasses all processes of an organisation, including communication and service provision. If we succeed in “thinking digitally”, such as integrating digital process support at all levels, we can experience long-term success and keep uprising competitors at bay.
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Digital educational escape rooms (DEERs) can provide an engaging gamified learning experience for students that is easy to use and sustainable for teachers. Though well-established in the STEM fields, where escape rooms often call for students to apply procedural skills, escape rooms are also used across a range of subjects to impact durable skills and attitudes such as communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. This paper seeks to extend the application of DEERs into social entrepreneurship (SE) education by exploring the DEER design elements relevant to the SE field. This paper will focus on developing durable skills and attitudes associated with social entrepreneurship, an area of entrepreneurship that seeks to create businesses with positive social impact. To identify the relevant design elements in DEERs, we conducted a systematic literature review. The research question was "Which design elements of digital educational escape rooms are necessary to teach social entrepreneurship skills and competencies?” This current paper builds on this type of framework by highlighting the relationship between the components of a DEER and learning objectives, specifically those relevant to a social entrepreneur’s educational context. For example, almost all papers reported successful collaboration in online groups. The authors also found that specific puzzle types were less important than the gamified context on impact on learning and skill development. Thus, the authors contribute to our understanding of how DEERs can relate to SE specific learning objectives, skills, and attitudes.
This paper provides new insights into entrepreneurship education (EE) for children, by combining three elements that expand the EE literature in a novel direction: (1) the content focus is on social and sustainable entrepreneurship; (2) the educational setting studied is primary education; and (3) the focus is on the effects as perceived by the participating children themselves.Explorative research was done on two programs delivered by EE provider Fawaka School of Entrepreneurship in the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A one-group pre-test/post-test survey among the full population of 450 participating children was conducted in 2021. The results provide clues that a program focused on sustainable and social entrepreneurship can provide different results than more ‘general’ programs on entrepreneurship, in particular with regard to differences between girls and boys. After the program, differences in entrepreneurial intentions are significantly smaller, and a number of significant differences with regard to self-confidence disappear.
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In order to achieve much-needed transitions in energy and health, systemic changes are required that are firmly based on the principles of regard for others and community values, while at the same time operating in market conditions. Social entrepreneurship and community entrepreneurship (SCE) hold the promise to catalyze such transitions, as they combine bottom-up social initiatives with a focus on financially viable business models. SCE requires a facilitating ecosystem in order to be able to fully realize its potential. As yet it is unclear in which way the entrepreneurial ecosystem for social and community entrepreneurship facilitates or hinders the flourishing and scaling of such entrepreneurship. It is also unclear how exactly entrepreneurs and stakeholders influence their ecosystem to become more facilitative. This research programme addresses these questions. Conceptually it integrates entrepreneurial ecosystem frameworks with upcoming theories on civic wealth creation, collaborative governance, participative learning and collective action frameworks.This multidisciplinary research project capitalizes on a unique consortium: the Dutch City Deal ‘Impact Ondernemen’. In this collaborative research, we enhance and expand current data collection efforts and adopt a living-lab setting centered on nine local and regional cases for collaborative learning through experimenting with innovative financial and business models. We develop meaningful, participatory design and evaluation methods and state-of-the-art digital tools to increase the effectiveness of impact measurement and management. Educational modules for professionals are developed to boost the abovementioned transition. The project’s learnings on mechanisms and processes can easily be adapted and translated to a broad range of impact areas.
Promoting entrepreneurship is an enabler of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and it is one objective EU regions have pursued since the EC included it into 2020 Strategy. Entrepreneurship development has economic and social benefits, since it is not only a driving force for job creation, competitiveness and growth; it also contributes to personal fulfillment and to achieve social objectives. That is why the EU encourages entrepreneurial initiatives and to unlock the growth potential of businesses and citizens. However, only a 37% of Europeans (Eurobarometer 2012) would like to be self-employed. The Entrepreneurship Action Plan adopted by the EC in 2013 to reignite Europe’s entrepreneurial spirit includes initiatives for educating young people on entrepreneurship. To ensure that EU economy remains globally competitive, young generations of Europeans need to be inspired to develop their entrepreneurial mindset. EU 2020 Action Plan argues that young people benefitting of a specialised entrepreneurial education are more likely to start-up a business and to better tackle challenges in their professional career and life in general. Hence, there is good reason to ensure better quality of entrepreneurial education. Most approaches in recent years have focused on improving the skills or competences youngsters should obtain only within the education system. However, an integrated approach is needed, where the school, their friends, family and the social environment, shall play each one a relevant role, contributing to generate a more adequate atmosphere to boost their entrepreneurial mindsets, intrapreneurial attitudes and innovation capacities. This project will identify and exchange – through a quadruple helix approach- good practices for creating friendlier entrepreneurial ecosystems and actions to boost entrepreneurship in young people mindsets. The good practices and lessons learnt will be transferred into Action Plans to be included in regional policies.
Ondernemerschap is een krachtige manier om maatschappelijke opgaven aan te pakken en brede welvaart in de regio te stimuleren. Als Brabantse kennisinstellingen werken we samen met Provincie Noord-Brabant aan kennisontwikkeling over ondernemen met een positieve maatschappelijke impact. We doen dit middels de volgende projecten:1. Brabant Impact Class - Wie zijn de impact ondernemers in Brabant en waar lopen zij tegenaan? In dit project brengen we zoveel mogelijk ondernemingen in beeld die bijdragen aan impact. We vragen hen naar de kansen die ze zien en de belemmeringen die zij ervaren. We koppelen hun vragen aan studenten en docenten. Zij ondersteunen deze ondernemers op hun beurt weer in allerlei vakken en projecten – en dat draagt weer bij aan ons inzicht in impact ondernemen.2. Case Based Learning - We laten aansprekende voorbeelden van Brabantse impact ondernemers te laten zien in het onderwijs. Van deze voorbeelden van onze alumni worden cases ontwikkeld die vervolgens een plek krijgen in verschillende onderwijsprogramma’s. Zo vergroten wij de ondernemersdrive bij studenten en mogelijk ook het aantal studentondernemers.3. Businessmodel Ontwikkeling met Impact - Welke ondernemingen in Noord-Brabant zijn succesvol in het creëren van impact? Wat doen zij en wat kunnen anderen ervan leren? En tegen welke belemmeringen lopen zij aan? Dit project maakt succes- en faalfactoren inzichtelijk en deelbaar.4. Geld met Impact: Wie laat startups duurzaam groeien? - De startende en groeiende impact ondernemers en investeerders met ESG-drijfveren lijken elkaar niet goed te vinden. Dit project richt zich op het onderzoeken van de financiële kant van het ecosysteem. Hoe zijn investeringen van private en publieke partijen in startups, scale-ups en sociale ondernemingen een stimulans voor ondernemerschap met maatschappelijke impact en brede welvaart?5. Kennisecosysteem - We willen de kennis over impact ondernemen zoveel mogelijk van waarde laten zijn in Brabant. Dit doen we door ontmoetingen te organiseren voor impact ondernemers, studenten ondernemers, docenten ondernemerschap en begeleiders en coaches. Ook delen we de inzichten van het onderzoek.Deze ‘nieuwe’ kennis zetten we om in werkbare principes voor ondernemers (in spé). Dit doen we in samenwerking met impact ondernemers in de regio en aanbieders van ondersteuning. Zo werken we samen toe naar het inzetten van hoogwaardige Brabantse kennis voor de maatschappij van morgen.
