A ten-year literature review of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education: Entrepreneurship and Sport Sciences, a gap to fill?

Abstract

The present research aims to analyze entrepreneurship education in higher education developments in the last 10 years in what concerns to educational product and process and to justify the importance of promoting entrepreneurship education in Sport Sciences undergraduate courses.

Several trends and improvements emerge in this 10-year literature review reflecting the increasing expansion of the field. However some gaps still exists, such as main focus on business and engineering fields and lacking uniformity in the programs and methods proposed. Due to complementarities between Sports and Entrepreneurship a specific context was analyzed and it was shown that Entrepreneurship can occur in all areas and Sport Sciences students can benefit of this interaction.

Our study contributes to theoretical development providing an overview of the current state of the field, highlighting main trends and gaps, opening avenues of research, such as the case of Sport Sciences and a new concept is proposed, of job-innovators.