Research
Engage Research work to become a world leading hub for research on entrepreneurship education, thus enabling researchers in obtaining, sharing and developing knowledge about how to increase students’ entrepreneurial skills and mindset.
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ADHD – an entrepreneur superpower?
Cecilie Haukland is the co-founder of ‘ADHD Ressurssenter’ and an SFU Engage PhD candidate. She submitted her thesis, ‘Unleashing Potential: Rethinking Entrepreneurship Education for Students with ADHD,’ to the SFU Engage Centre at Nord…
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University Spin-offs at Stage Two 2025 – a Pitching Competition in Berlin
For the fifth consecutive year, NTNU participated in Stage Two, a prestigious European pitching competition held in Berlin. As in previous years, we organized Stage One at NTNU, where university-based start-ups competed for the…
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The future innovators through student volunteering?
Innovative solutions and businesses are central to a welfare society, and to make it happen in the future today’s students have to work up own innovation competence. Unfortunately these are skills that are not…
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Book launch: REFRAMING THE CASE METHOD IN ENTREPRENEUSHIP EDUCATION: Cases from the Nordic Countries
We are launching our book on how to educate students to gain an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset through the use of education cases from the Nordic countries.
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How startups can strategically influence legitimacy-building
Legitimacy is not static, it is developed through a process. Startups can influence this process, which means that they can be strategic about how they build legitimacy.
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Can we evaluate entrepreneurship education?
Entrepreneurship education is too complex to only rely on one outcome measure. It is time to rethink our view on assessment.
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Students as educators – Learning through mentoring
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.
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The value of entrepreneurial nurses
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…
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The 3E Conference 2021
In the spring of 2020, entrepreneurship education had to move online. We now have to ask – what does the ‘new’ entrepreneurship education look like?
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Cataly(c)st as a project example of how we work goal-oriented with the UN Sustainable Goals
Cataly(c)st aims to bring best practices from the research world, the maker communities, the youth movements and industry into one strong initiative.
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Sustainability in Engage
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.
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Student startup helping ALS patients
Imagine not being able to do everyday tasks due to a weakness or paralysis in your arms and hands. Vilje Bionics, a startup from NTNU school of Entrepreneurship, intends to develop an aid for…
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Spark* ignites the entrepreneurial spirit in students – and the curiosity of researchers
The impact of Spark* in new book about research on Business and Technology Incubation and Acceleration
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Entrepreneurship education in higher music education
In a world that deeply values musical products, but are used to not paying for it – how can musicians secure a livelihood? They need to learn entrepreneurial skills.
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Sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practice in new international book
Engage contributes to a new book by sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practices in three chapters highlighting the CERN Screening Week, the Blast off Week at Nord and the Venture Creation Program at NTNU.
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Five more years for Engage
Engage has become a world-leading centre for entrepreneurship education and has recently been granted an extended period of 5 years. What have we done and what is the future plans of Engage?
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Educating Entrepreneurial Researchers
The course “Research-based Innovation” aims to develop the entrepreneurial mindset of PhD students to increase their engagement with practitioners.
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Previous Online Events – Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education
Selected participants are pitching their paper, based on the theme Pedagogical Interventions in Entrepreneurship Education, followed by a digital roundtable discussion.
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Opportunity evaluation in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship
What kind of knowledge, skills and attitudes do entrepreneurs need for understanding the social and ecological aspects of an business opportunity?
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EE Explore: Exploring entrepreneurship educations digitally
EE Explore is a collaboration between Engage and ECSB – European Council for small Business and Entrepreneurship – a virtual platform for research interaction globally about Entrepreneurship Education. We arrange a series of online…
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How to become an entrepreneur in a week
This book is written for these teachers, program managers and university administrators. By reading this book, they will learn how eleven other European universities decided to solve this task and learn from their experiences.
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Virtual teams – A recap of last weeks Engage talk
Mette Mari Wold Johnsen had a talk with Sigrid Westad Brandshaug, Maiken Spjelkevik and Stina Kånhoff about virtual teams and how they can succeed in our latest Engage Talk.
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Engage Talks – digital concept from Engage
Engage talk is new concept on Facebook that Engage is trying out. The concept is a digital series in the field of entrepreneurship where we highlight current topics that can be useful for professionals,…
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Stimulating best practice sharing for Entrepreneurship Education
An important part of Engage’s vision is to work towards better practices within Entrepreneurship Education. And in order to do that, we need to combine our own learnings with insights from other experts in…
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Students’ entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurial mindset is said to be the way entrepreneurs think and act. To possess the entrepreneurial mindset is portrayed to be key for everyone who acts entrepreneurially.
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The entrepreneurial nurse
Global healthcare needs continuous quality improvement, increased efficiency and enhanced safety for patients and employees. Entrepreneurial nurses may create useful and applicable solutions to these challenges. By exploring new ideas, nurses may create value…
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Students’ roles in entrepreneurial ecosystems at universities
Students are an important part of any university’s entrepreneurial output. How do students contribute to the ecosystem at the university and the university’s regional ecosystem?
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Spark* goes international
Spark* NTNU was established in 2014, but 2019 was the year the organization took its most significant steps so far. The organization provides mentoring and an entrepreneurial network within the ecosystem at the university…
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Engages Ph.D. candidate at the regional finals of the Researchers’ Grand Prix 2019
In September 2019 Gunn-Berit Sæter competed against nine researchers in the regional finals in Trondheim. Sæter says it was an incredible journey and a lot of work.
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3E 2020 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The 3E Conference or the ECSB Entrepreneurship Education Conference will be hosted by NTNU and Engage in Trondheim on 13-15 May, 2020. Researchers have before December 1st to submit their abstracts if they want…
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The first doctoral thesis from Engage
After four years of working with his PhD thesis, Torgeir Aadland is ready to defend his thesis “Assessment of Entrepreneurship Education: Design, Learning and Objectives”.
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DIKU and the SFU’s – two days of important discussions
The 21st and 22nd of October, Engage and Excited hosted the biannual DIKU gathering for The Centres for Excellence in Education Initiative (SFU)
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Gründerbrakka: A great initiative that facilitates the development of knowledge-based business ideas
Since the spring of 2018, Gründerbrakka have been taking in students who have innovating ideas and gives them offices to make their businesses.
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Travelogue – University of Genova and its “Start Up Innovative” program
One of the students from NTNU School of Entrepreneurship, Jonas Aakenes, recently visited the University of Genova to see how they managed the entrepreneurship education at the school.
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Travelogue – Refugee Entrepreneurs Denmark and CO:LAB in Copenhagen
Students from NSE went to Denmark, to visit the incubator Refugee Entrepreneurs Denmark (RED), KPH Projects, CO:LAB and to do interviews for their master thesis
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Travelogue: Trip to the UK to explore VCPs
Engage visited the UK and the goal of the trip was to learn more about how other universities implement a study program in Entrepreneurship, especially a VCP (Venture Creation Program)
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Highly acclaimed entrepreneurship award to NTNU
Marius Tuft Mathisen at NTNU won The Heizer Dissertation Award for his research within the field of entrepreneurship. .
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Engage project wins funding from the research council of Norway’s international partnership
The project will establish a network of institutions to develop knowledge to improve entrepreneurial education
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Nominated to best paper award at the 3E Conference.
Iselin Kristine Mauseth, a PhD student at the Engage center at Nord University, started her PhD in August 2017 and got nominated to the best paper award at the 3E-conference in May 2018.
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Musicians can also be entrepreneurs
Bejamin Toscher is teaching a five-week intensive course called entrepreneurship for music, communication and technology.
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Interdisciplinary teamwork skills for the 21st century
Improv, design thinking and panel discussion are just a few things engaging the participants at the 4th Its21 Conference.
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15 Years With More Than New Ventures – May Edition I
NTNU School of Entrepreneurship has bred numerous new ventures, tech development in world class, and graduates with extensive knowledge and experience in entrepreneurship, its students are also presenting academic work with high standards!
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15 Years With More Than New Ventures – May Edition II
NTNU School of Entrepreneurship has bred forth numerous new ventures, tech development in world class, and graduates with extensive knowledge, its students are also presenting academic work with high standards. Read some of the…
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Stipender til studentdrevne prosjekter
Engage har, gjennom tildeling fra NOKUT, gleden av å utlyse 6 stipend à 12.500.- NOK for studentdrevne prosjekter for å bedre egen utdanning. Prosjektene skal forbedre utdanning på senter- studieprogram- eller emnenivå, og skal…
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15 years with more than new ventures – February edition
NTNU School of Entrepreneurship has bred forth numerous new ventures, tech development in world class, and graduates with extensive knowledge, its students are also presenting academic work with high standards. Read some of the…
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– Why hasn’t the connection between knowledge and confidence gotten more attention?
Through education focused on problem-solving, PhD Candidate Kristoffer Slåttsveen hopes to develop students’ creative confidence already from an early age.
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The future hospital operating rooms
Technology and medicine students at NTNU are brought together in a workshop to find out how the future hospital operating rooms should look like.
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15 years with more than new ventures
NTNU School of Entrepreneurship has bred forth numerous new ventures, tech development in world class, and graduates with extensive knowledge, its students are also presenting academic work with high standards. Read some of the…
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How to evaluate entrepreneurship education programs?
PhD candidate Torgeir Aadland at the Engage centre researches the field of venture creation programs. We had a chat with him to hear what venture creation programs are all about.
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Alumni Startup: Connect LNG
– It’s an industry with a lot of well experienced people with big companies, and there we were, five whippersnappers straight out of school.
