Forty-five years of research on entrepreneurship education: a review and bibliometric analysis from Scopus dataset

Abstract

In recent years, the number of publications related to entrepreneurship education (EE) has increased rapidly. This change requires a systematic review and evaluate the trends, changes and development of this subject. Based on the bibliometric analysis, this paper investigates 1782 EE-related documents published between 1977 and 2022 from Scopus database to assess the growth trajectory of publications, most cited papers, key authors, most prolific countries, and institutions. The results show an explosive growth in the academic literature on EE in the last decade. In addition, results of bibliographic coupling of documents and co-occurrence of authors’ keywords analyses reveal three main schools of thought in EE research including EE in higher education, EE and entrepreneurial intention, and motivation of EE. The paper contributes to the existing literature by providing a comprehensive picture of EE. More importantly, the study calls for more research on the relationship between EE and big data, EE and self-efficacy, and EE and deep learning.