“Entrepreneurship that is something you learn in practice”. “Entrepreneurship is learning by doing”. This is often heard when you tell others that you teach entrepreneurship, but maybe entrepreneurship is more “doing by learning”. Nevertheless, in entrepreneurship practice and theory are interwoven. For this reason the Learning Cycle introduced by Kolb (1984) is an often used teaching approach.
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(2008). Teaching Entrepreneurship: An Introduction. In: van der Sijde, P., Ridder, A., Blaauw, G., Diensberg, C. (eds) Teaching Entrepreneurship. Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2038-6_1
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