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Entrepreneurship education is too complex to only rely on one outcome measure. It is time to rethink our view on assessment. By Torgeir Aadland, Co-director Engage and Associate Professor, NTNU The popularity of action-based, authentic and self-directed entrepreneurship education is prominent in many educational systems around the world today. Some entrepreneurship education implements and utilises...

The latest study published by Engage showed that valuable learning can happen when students hold the role of educators in student-active and student-led initiatives, such as Spark NTNU.

It is important that nurses learn to be entrepreneurial, because they are the ones who discover important problem areas in their work and have the knowledge needed to solve them. But how do nurses become entrepreneurial?

In the spring of 2020, entrepreneurship education had to move online. We now have to ask - what does the ‘new’ entrepreneurship education look like?

Cataly(c)st aims to bring best practices from the research world, the maker communities, the youth movements and industry into one strong initiative.

Sustainability – in the context of Engage – means ensuring that change agents have the right tools and competency in order to make conscious choices towards sustainable development.

Entrepreneurs need to make decisions fast, in an unknown environment, without knowing all the answers. This is a group exercise simulating a board meeting where students are forced to make decisions together. If the board doesn’t give clear guidelines, what will the management do?

To come up with good ideas, we need to understand the problem we'd like solve. This exercise is a fast-paced idea creation process, where developing a good problem understanding is the core and starting point.

Introduce your students to idea creation and business model development using the Business Model Canvas, while you stay in control and guide them past common misconceptions with the Canvas.

Hvilke aktører kan være interessert i og få verdi fra prosjektene dere jobber med? En metode for å hjelpe studentene med å kartlegge interessenter for et problem eller en idé.