This topical new book provides an illuminating overview of enterprise education, and poses the question as to whether current establishments have adequate systems in place to prepare students for the world of work. Addressing the increasing need for graduates with practical skills and expertise in the labour market, this collection of insightful chapters analyses the opportunities that are available for aspiring entrepreneurs to develop enterprise skills and experience key aspects of starting and running a business, whilst in a supported environment such as an educational program or incubator scheme. With comprehensive discussion of higher education initiatives and empirical examples of experiential learning in the workplace, this book is an important and timely read for those researching business enterprise, entrepreneurship and higher education more generally.

Part I. Experiential Learning in Education

Chapter 1. Experiential Learning Philosophies of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education; Michael Breum Ramsgaard
Chapter 2. Assessing Experiential Entrepreneurship Education:  Key Insights from Five Methods in Use at a Venture Creation Program; Martin Lackéus and Karen Williams Middleton
Chapter 3. Enterprise Simulation Gaming: Effective Practices for SimVenture Classic and VentureBlocks; Naveed Yasin and Khalid Hafeez
Chapter 4. An Exploration of Experiential Education as a Catalyst for Future Entrepreneurs; Denis Hyams-Ssekasi and Elizabeth F. Caldwell
Chapter 5. An Appreciation of the Stakeholder Impact in an Enterprise Education Experiential Learning Event: 'The Enterprise Challenge,' a Case Story from Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; Joan Scott, Bobby Mackie, Robert Smith and Judy Crooks
Chapter 6. Embedding Interdisciplinary and Challenge-led Learning into the Student Experience; Jess Power
Chapter 7. An Holistic Approach to the Delivery of Effective Enterprise Education; Veronica Scuotto and Alan Murray
Part II. Experiential Learning in the World of Work
Chapter 8. Experiential Learning in Entrepreneurial Families: Lessons from Mexico; Mariana Estrada-Robles
Chapter 9. Learning from a Premium Dining Restaurant to Implement a Delight Strategy in a Bar / Grill: Applying Experiential Learning; David Bamber and Clay Gransden
Chapter 10. Do Intrapreneurs Learn by Doing?; Maria de Lurdes Calisto
Chapter 11. Understanding Organizational Values through Experiential Learning; David Bamber and Steve Harding
Chapter 12. Experiential Learning through the Transformational Incubation Programme: A Case study from Accra, Ghana; Stephen Dobson, Gideon Maas, Paul Jones and Joan Lockyer
Chapter 13. When Pedagogic Worlds Collide: Reflections on a Pan-European Entrepreneurship Education project Kate Penney, Dimitris Bibikas, Tim Vorley,  and Robert Wapshott.