Resumo

Entrepreneurial education is currently emerging both in new educational practices to entrepreneurial training, as well as in research in the field of entrepreneurship and administration (Fayolle, 2013; Boas & Nascimento, 2020; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000). Different from most self-help manuals, scientific literature asserts it is not possible to teach an individual to be a successful entrepreneur (Dolabela, 2008; Schaefer & Minello, 2020).

Given the incipience of the subject in academia, several gaps are observed, such as: the fragile form of teaching tending to be inconsistent with the current economic and political situation; the lack of teaching experience in some universities that think only about the advantages of offering the course and not about the responsibility of knowledge transfer. Motivated by these factors, a bibliometric and systematic analysis of scientific productions addressing the interfaces of entrepreneurial education in higher education was carried out.

Accordingly, Hindle (2007) conceptualizes entrepreneurial education as a knowledge transfer movement encouraging the creation of goods and services through the exploration of opportunities. This definition refers to the understanding of the exclusive responsibility of entrepreneurial education, not fixed only to teachers in the classroom, which opens a range of possibilities for various institutions.

After present the theoretical framework and methodology, it is time to discuss the main research inclinations and the most promising themes. Thus, this section is divided into five topics: 1) The overall overview of entrepreneurial education; 2) Research on the relationship with entrepreneurial intention; 3) Research on the connection with innovation; 4) Research on the association with entrepreneurial skills, and finally; 5) Promising paths in research on entrepreneurial education.

The results show a high number of studies based on the relationship between entrepreneurial education in higher education, and entrepreneurial intention. However, new research is needed to analyze the passage of entrepreneurial intention for the act of undertaking in practice, corroborating the study of Ribeiro and Plonski (2020).

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