Supporting Educators Towards More Inclusive Design of Entrepreneurship Courses

Abstract

This paper explores inclusive entrepreneurship course design across European universities. Drawing a sample of six cases across five universities the paper adopts a multiple case study research design to explore how educators are supporting the Missing Entrepreneurs according to the OECD definition (women, people with disability, refugees and migrants, young people and seniors). The findings show interesting and innovative pedagogical approaches to emerge by analogy and replication. The paper provides empirical and practical contribution for educators in terms of developing entrepreneurship courses according to the principles of universal design for learning drawing on needs of the Missing Entrepreneurs. The Paper further contributes to a more focused approach for educators who want to target entrepreneurship programmes and support specific underrepresented groups, such as female entrepreneurs, people with a disability, the youth and seniors as case studies are explained.