Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: Facing New Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Since 2006, when the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union recommended <<sense of initiative and entrepreneurship>> as a key competence for lifelong learning, it seems that there is no doubt that entrepreneurship has become a more familiar concept among citizens. In fact, several (educational) laws, decrees and frameworks as EntreComp (Bacigalupo et al., 2016), EntreCompEdu (Grigg, 2021) or EntrepComEdu (Sanz and Núñez, 2022) have been issued in recent years, pointing out its applicability from basic education stages to the university system, and several other areas and fields, such as sustainability or AI. In this sense, the education and initial training of future teachers is a fundamental element for the development of entrepreneurial competence.

Nowadays, entrepreneurship is not only seen as an engine for economic development but also as a key element which improves, transforms and positively impacts society, social growth (and its sustainability) and its citizens' development.

However, there are still challenges to be addressed, such as understand that entrepreneurship is not exclusively linked to the creation of new companies or business, integrating entrepreneurship in university departments, schools and courses to develop different profiles and backgrounds within the five helix model (Carayannis and Campbell, 2010); dealing with a more social sustainable entrepreneurial model; facing and aligning AI with entrepreneurial systems; contributing to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG); aligning SDG with entrepreneurial actions from a variety of fields; assessing EntreComp based-implemented programs; using entrepreneurial mindset to face social challenges; (.....).

For all these reasons, this call for papers has the following research topics of interest:

• Entrepreneurial universities
• University entrepreneurship education
• Sustainable entrepreneurial mindset
• Sustainable entrepreneurship
• Sustainable social entrepreneurship
• STE(A)M-based sustainable entrepreneurship
• AI-based sustainable entrepreneurship
• SDG-based entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial competence in education to boost sustainability
• Entrepreneurial competence and education in fields beyond business
• Active and agile methods approaches to promote sustainable entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurs in education: teacherpreneurs, edupreneurs and entrepreneurs as “key elements” to reach sustainable entrepreneurship

References:

1. Bacigalupo, M., Kampylis, P., Punie, Y. and Van den Brande, G. (2016). EntreComp: The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework. European Commission, Brussels.
2. Grigg, R. (2021). EntreCompEdu, a professional development framework for entrepreneurial education. Education +Training, 63, 1058–1072.
3. The European Parliament And The Council Of The European Union (2006). Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 on key competences for lifelong learning.
4. Sanz Ponce, R. & Núñez Canal, M. (2022). El docente ante la enseñanza de la competencia emprendedora: el modelo EntrepComEdu (pp. 133-151). In R. Sanz-Ponce (Coord.), Docentes y competencia emprendedora. Dykinson.
5. Carayannis, E. & Campbell, D. F. (2010). Triple Helix, Quadruple Helix and Quintuple Helix and How Do Knowledge, Innovation and the Environment Relate To Each Other? A Proposed Framework for a Trans-disciplinary Analysis of Sustainable Development and Social Ecology. International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 1(1), 41–69.

Dr. Jessica Paños-Castro
Dr. Arantza Arruti
Dr. Garazi Azanza
Guest Editors

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• educational challenge
• education
• sustainable entrepreneurship
• sustainable entrepreneurship education