Business & Management Studies

Abstract

Entrepreneurship Education is a concept of education started in the 1930s and spread in the 1970s to develop student’s entrepreneurial skills and enhance knowledge of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Mindset Profile (EMP) is an assessment instrument developed by a team of psychologists and researchers at the Eckerd College of Leadership Development Institute (LDI). It is based on the belief that the patterns of thought and behavior associated with entrepreneurial mindset would be helpful to those leaders charged with driving growth and innovation with the organizations. EMP was applied to a joint research project to assess and compare the entrepreneurship education in Japan and the United States. This is the first time that EMP was introduced and applied outside the United States. The EMP survey results were assessed and interpreted culturally, behaviorally and statistically by the authors. The results show that the ecosystem of entrepreneurship education in the U.S. is more effective and sustainable than the one in Japan due to various factors that will be discussed in the paper. The paper contributes to the comparative study of entrepreneurship education in a new and global perspective.