Comparative Entrepreneurship Education

This book systematically compares the innovation and entrepreneurship education (IEE) in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Croatia, Canada, South Korea, and China. The book invites the most distinguished professors of each country in this field to contribute. It provides a context analysis that can lead to greater insight into why and how IEE has become an important government agenda and an institutional priority in different country settings. Following the context, each chapter analyzes governmental policies and the guidance of entrepreneurship education in recent years. This book also analyzes the internal development and supporting system of IEE from an ecosystem perspective. Based on the comparison of case countries, the book puts forwards the common successful experience and the differentiation of IEE.




Prof. Xiaozhou Xu is Qiushi Chair Professor at College of Education, Zhejiang University, and President of Communication University of Zhejiang, China. He also serves as the Chair-holder of UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurial Education, and President of UNESCO Entrepreneurship Education Network National Chapter of China. He has published more than twenty monographs and one hundred articles in key academic journals, and undertook more than sixty research projects in the area of Entrepreneurship Education,Comparative Education, and Higher Education.