What business schools do to support academic entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

2021/03/11 by Grace Walsh, Grace S. Walsh, James A. Cunningham +4 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences #Management and Marketing Education #Management and Organizational Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/03075079.2021.1896805

openalex publication_date 2021/03/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

The literature on academic entrepreneurship within business schools is limited and fragmented. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to address this deficit and to identify what business schools do to support academic entrepreneurship and to outline a future research agenda. Based on our systematic literature review we identified three main themes that business schools do to support academic entrepreneurship namely: entrepreneurial education; entrepreneurial networks; and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Furthermore, we identified two further embryonic themes, individual level factors and obstacles to entrepreneurship. Based on our review and analysis we present some future avenues for research.

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