Hopes and Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education: Dialogue Between Public Civil Servants and Academics

Since our first CREE (Community of Research in Entrepreneurship Education) conference, held in Roanne in 2019, our members have continued their efforts to promote dialogue among different stakeholders on the usefulness of the research projects carried out in the field of enterprise and entrepreneurship education. Various discussion groups composed of researchers, practitioners and funders but also public actors were formed to discuss this theme. For this special issue devoted to entrepreneurship and enterprise education, we spoke with Peter Baur of the European Commission and Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin of the OECD, both education experts with a particular interest in entrepreneurship education. We begin with a discussion around definitions and objectives; then we develop the question of the evaluation of these numerous educative initiatives and end up with a focus on the role of professors and more particularly the way that we could support them and therefore have more effective entrepreneurship courses.