Show Me the Evidence! – Where Does Entrepreneurship Education Really Shape the Entrepreneurial Mindset?

While extant studies on entrepreneurial education (EE) highlighted the importance of EE for fostering the entrepreneurial mindset (EM) change (Pittaway L, Cope J, Int Small Bus J, 25(5):479–510, 2007; Naia A, Baptista R, Januário C, Trigo V, Ind High Educ, 28:79–96, 2014; Nabi G, Liñán F, Fayolle A, Krueger N, Walmsley A, Acad Manag Learn Educ, 16(2):277–299, 2017; Fayolle A. (ed) A research agenda for entrepreneurship education. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018), many studies failed to provide quantitative data to actually prove the visible impact of EE on EM at the individual level. In this study, we seek to provide an evidence for how an interdisciplinary EE impacts the individual’s entrepreneurial mindset. We do this by experimenting with a tool that originally stems from tracking the open innovation mindset and is adapted to measuring changes of individual entrepreneurial mindset. More specifically, we investigate what entrepreneurial mindset changes can actually measure.