An «instructional» perspective on entrepreneurship education — focusing on the development of team competencies

Successful entrepreneurs are identified as the main driving force for economy. Therefore, in many countries various programs evoking and developing entrepreneurial activities are set up by governments with huge financial support. As current evaluations come up with different results of their effectiveness a meta-study suggests to use variables of outcomes of human capital investments (processes of learning, knowledge, skills) instead of variables of investments of human capital (education, experience) for monitoring and evaluating output and outcomes of entrepreneurial courses and programs. Within this study we pick up these challenges by firstly analyzing strengths and weaknesses of current entrepreneurship programs using the «curriculum-instruction-assessment-triad» as a heuristic frame. Secondly, we introduce a theory-based instruction approach for entrepreneurship education and present thirdly a first glance of assessment. The study is run within a compulsory business course for bachelor students. The results show by a pre-post-experimental-control-group design that the exemplarily focused curricular goal «team competencies» could be developed.