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Context and Ideology of Entrepreneurship Education in Practice

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Becoming an Entrepreneur

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In the contemporary knowledge economy, with academia as a major producer and distributor of formal knowledge, process and product innovation – e.g. in form of designing and enacting new curricula – is extremely important. In this spirit, we here report how an internationally recognized master program in entrepreneurship has been developed and put into practice.

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Achtenhagen, L., Johannisson, B. (2014). Context and Ideology of Entrepreneurship Education in Practice. In: Weber, S., Oser, F.K., Achtenhagen, F., Fretschner, M., Trost, S. (eds) Becoming an Entrepreneur. Professional and Vet Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-596-0_6

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