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Evaluations of an entrepreneurship development 

program: A systematic literature review 

Ronal Ferdilan
1*

, Wawan Dhewanto
2
, Sonny Rustiadi

3
 

 
1 

School of Business and Management, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung, 

Indonesia 
2 

School of Business and Management, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung, 

Indonesia 
3 

School of Business and Management, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung, 

Indonesia 

*Corresponding Author(s) Email: ronal-ferdilan@sbm-itb.ac.id 

 

ABSTRACT   

The contribution of entrepreneurship at both the 

microeconomic and macroeconomic levels is remarkable. 

There are many entrepreneurship development programs 

(EDP) initiatives proposed by policymakers around the 

world to ensure the growth of entrepreneurs. While EDP 

is necessary to improve entrepreneur capabilities, 

however studies on EDP evaluation literacy remain 

limited. This study aims to fill the gap by investigating 

EDP evaluation literacy by using a systematic literature 

review (SLR). This study carried out a bibliometric 

analysis on a Scopus database in the last three decades, 

from 1989 to 2021 with all the manuscripts were written 

in English. The results show that most of the literature on 

EDP evaluation-related themes is mainly focused on 

program evaluation, characteristics, challenges, 

stakeholders, and context, with program evaluation and 

characteristics are considered as the most significant 

issues of EDP evaluation. Interestingly, this study also 

reveals that few manuscripts review the process of EDP 

as the success criterion of EDP implementation.  

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Development; Small and 

Medium Enterprises (SMEs); Education; 

Training; Systematic Review; Bibliometric 

Analysis 

 

 
JEL Code:  

I25, I30, M13 

 

DOI: 

10.31106/jema.v18i2.11461 

 

Article History: 

Received  2021-07-08 

Reviewed 2021-07-30 

Revised    2021-08-02 

Accepted  2021-08-19 

 

Licensed: 

CC-BY 

 

 

 

 

mailto:ronal-ferdilan@sbm-itb.ac.id
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Introduction  

Entrepreneurship development programs (EDP) are activities (or a package of training 

and counseling designed) to increase knowledge and creativity. EDP encourages the 

entrepreneurial spirit of people to start and grow their business in both formal (high-school 

and post-secondary school students) and informal sectors (Gangi, 2017; Hägg & Gabrielsson, 

2020; Lackéus, 2015; Valerio et al., 2014). The purposes of EDP are to improve skills, 

knowledge, and attitudes of targeted individuals and community (Fayolle et al., 2016; 

Gedeon, 2017; Klingler-vidra et al., 2019), to start a new business, and to add new jobs 

(Decker et al., 2014; Jeng & Hung, 2019), to provide an alternatives sources of income 

(Dvouletý, 2017; Terjesen et al., 2016), and to initiate economic growth (Martínez et al., 

2018; Song & Winkler, 2014; Stoica & Roman, 2020). Nowadays, EDP implementation is 

getting more recognition and attention from policymakers and academicians because of its 

contributions (Tsai et al., 2014). EDP offered many benefits to the entrepreneurial 

community. It increases the economic contribution, gives alternative solutions to youth 

unemployment issues, creates social impact, etc. (Nabi et al., 2017; Pettersson et al., 2017; 

Valerio et al., 2014). 

The academic literature EDP-related has been expanding steadily over the years, 

covering themes like entrepreneurship program categorization, attitudes, and perception, EDP 

objective, program content and framework, social entrepreneurship, evaluation, and impact 

(Gabrielsson et al., 2020; Kakouris & Georgiadis, 2016; Loi et al., 2016; Martin et al., 2013). 

However, Gustafsson-Pesonen & Remes (2012) argued that despite its popularity, it’s very 

often reported that the biggest obstacles of entrepreneurship programs are on what (and how) 

educators or trainers teach and their attitudes toward entrepreneurship. Besides, Gustafsson-

Pesonen & Remes (2012) also pointed that the evaluation of the EDP effectiveness remains 

arguable. Fayolle (2013) added that while the impact of the program or session on trainees, 

students, and other participants may be an appropriate evaluation criterion, there is still the 

issue of how to measure it. What should the indicators be, and how should they be measured? 

How can you quantify a shift in someone's intention or behavior? How may the sign of the 

time component be considered? And how can educational, teaching, and training aspects be 

distinguished from all other factors that influence the decision to pursue a particular career 

path or profession? 

The clear EDP evaluation measurement is necessary to provide tremendous program 

improvement of all deficiencies in achieving the program’s goals and objectives and closing 



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the loop of the program decision-making. Although there is still debate about evaluation 

measurement due to the absence of a control group (Fayolle, 2013) and meta-analysis (Bae et 

al., 2014), this problem can be minimized by analyzing its nature, educational interventions, 

and context. Therefore, to fill such a gap, the study aims to explore the state of EDP 

evaluations using a systematic literature review (SLR) since this method can give an 

exceptional knowledge of the current body of work (Frank & Hatak, 2014). We have 

investigated 366 papers from the Scopus database that were published from 1989 to 2021 that 

used the keywords “entrepreneur,” “develop,” “evaluate,” “education,” and “training.” The 

usage of Scopus as the primary database in the study is because this reputable international 

database is utilized by academicians worldwide. By investigating state of the art, we 

identified five main themes: evaluation, program characteristics, challenge, stakeholder, and 

context. Besides these central themes, we also evaluated the manuscript based on the period it 

was published, the contributors, and the subject area of the manuscript. This study is 

considered the first amongst EDP-related manuscripts that uses SLR to explore the 

evaluations of the EDP. Furthermore, the systemic literature review is used as this method 

can create an academic map regarding EDP evaluation trends and futures (Alvesson & 

Sandberg, 2011). 

The manuscript is composed as follows: the first and second sections will briefly review 

academic literature, concentrating specifically on the theme’s critical aspect of EDP. 

Subsequently, the third section states the methodology of the research to produce a duplicable 

SLR. Following these come the results of the SLR and a review of EDP trends constructed in 

journals studied of this theme. Thus, the final part contains the result, suggestions, 

limitations, and suggestions for future research. 

Literature Review  

Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) 

Entrepreneurship is considered a critical alternative strategy to deal with various 

situations, such as financial crises and increased unemployment rates (Galvão et al., 2018). It 

is appreciated as a trigger of regional prosperity and social development (Ashrafi et al., 2020; 

Galvão et al., 2019; Song & Winkler, 2014). The entrepreneurship level of a country has been 

shown to influence the advancement of national economies (Atems & Shand, 2018; Prieger et 

al., 2016), progress and innovation (Landström & Harirchi, 2018; Sánchez, 2013), the 

number of job creation (Shane & Venkataram, 2012), and the growth in nominal Gross 

Domestic Product (Khyareh et al., 2018). Therefore, due to the critical contribution to the 



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economy’s sustainable development, policymakers have been focused on shaping education 

and training to ensure entrepreneurship development. This program is vital for developing 

entrepreneurship as it is packaged with managerial, financial, vocational, and technical 

training. Suminar et al. (2021) added that the entrepreneurship development program (EDP) 

is the right strategy to scale up the level of innovation, creativity, ability, and literacy of 

entrepreneurs to produce new, profitable young entrepreneurs to create jobs and assist the 

government in alleviating unemployment and poverty. Many researchers have discussed 

various connotations and meanings of EDP that different direct approaches in its theoretical 

development. Such discussions are still going on, multiple researchers’ Ahmad et al., (2018), 

Fayolle & Gailly (2008), and Gibb (2002) stated that there is no complete consensus on 

definitional terminology. They claimed that the meaning of EDP can only be deduced from 

their emphasis and the objective of public policy 'initiatives. For example, Sudha (2019) 

argues that EDP improves entrepreneurial passion, competency, and capability to run 

enterprises. EDP also changes people's attitudes in developing their competency, passion, 

working capacity, and knowledge. Besides, EDP helps participants identify any business 

opportunities. It also boosts the confidence, reflection, expertise, and qualification to operate 

a successful business (Jones & English, 2004; Kumar, 2017). Landra et al. (2018) explained 

that EDP are set up to train their entrepreneurial abilities and innovation. To summarize, 

numerous researchers (Béchard & Denis, 2005; Béchard & Denis, 1998; Gabrielsson et al., 

2020; Heinonen & Hytti, 2016; Interman, 1992; Kyrö, 2015; Lackéus, 2015) classified these 

education and training programs into simple three purposes. The purposes are to promote 

business awareness and creation, small business development, and train trainers. 

Entrepreneurship Development Programs (EDP) Evaluation  

The attention of EDP is booming worldwide. Although there is debate whether these 

programs should be introduced at an early age (elementary school) or university level, more 

and more public policy “initiatives” related to entrepreneurship are implemented by the 

government to accelerate the growth of business and enhance entrepreneurial spirit and 

literacies. (Fayolle, 2013) also added that given that it is a hot topic on the political agenda, 

there is an increasing number of publications by academicians that have focused on EDP. 

However, the critical question now arises, whether the implementation of EDP affects the 

intended goals and produces an effective result. (Brentnall et al., 2018) argued that if public 

money were allocated on such initiatives because they are represented as solutions to societal 



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issues, it was reasonable to examine whether they were a good investment. Therefore, more 

investigations should be made in evaluating EDP (Farashah, 2013; Larso et al., 2018).  

Surprisingly, despite the huge number of public initiatives allocated to this program (and 

the critical issue from government perspectives), a little study is available to comprehensively 

discuss the assessment and evaluation of EDP (Fayolle, 2013). Yet Acs et al. (2016) and 

Gustafsson-Pesonen & Remes (2012) also pointed out that the review of the effectiveness of 

the EDP remains debatable. While the impact of the program or session on trainees, students, 

and other participants may be an appropriate evaluation criterion, there is still the issue of 

how to measure it. What should the indicators be, and how should they be measured? How 

can you quantify a shift in someone's intention or behavior? How may the sign of the time 

component be considered? And how can educational, teaching, and training aspects be 

distinguished from all other factors that influence the decision to pursue a particular career 

path or profession (Fayolle, 2013)?   

The nature of EDP that is inseparable from training and education made the teaching 

model one of the critical sources in evaluating EDP. Eseryel (2002) identified six approaches 

that can be used in assessing EDP: goal-based evaluation, goal-free evaluation, responsive 

evaluation, systems evaluation, and professional review and quasi-legal. Fayolle (2013) 

added that among these approaches, goal-based (Kirkpatrick's reaction, learning, behavior, 

result framework) and systems-based approaches (such as Input, Process, Output, Outcome 

model by Bushnell) are predominantly used to assess EDP. EDP evaluation should focus 

more on the process than content (Gruenwald, 2014). Lundström et al. (2014) and Vesper & 

Gartner (1997) also strengthened that argument by stating that the accomplishment of 

programs goals and teaching methods are the two most commonly used to assess EDP. 

Moreover, Galvão et al. (2019), Nyadu-Addo & Mensah (2018) added that the attendances 

and participation in the business clinic (assessment), context (Galvão et al., 2018; Jessica & 

Menold, 2015; Purzer et al., 2016), individual characteristics (Fretschner & Weber, 2013; 

Huang-Saad et al., 2018), knowledge/theory understanding (Brentnall et al., 2018; Neergaard, 

2014), as another EDP successful indicator. The program assessment offers information 

required for external certification and accountability information and delivers information 

used internally for quality control and improvement purposes (Lundström et al., 2014; 

Palomba & Banta, 1999). 

 

   



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Methods 

This study used systematic literature reviews that cover EDP evaluation-related topics 

for program improvement. Armitage & Keeble-Ramsay (2008) Borrego et al. (2014) and 

Tranfield et al. (2003) added that the SLR technique shows an important practical (in terms of 

accuracy for duplicability) when dealing with many investigations presented in a long period. 

SLRs are widely used for conducting evidence-based policy (Pittaway, 2016; Pittaway & 

Cope, 2007). Therefore, considering these points, we utilize SLR to identify issues on EDP 

evaluation and analyze its growth. The analysis also intends to assess the impact of papers on 

this subject, analyze journals that produce documents, verify significant writers and 

academicians, and classify desirable topics and procedures. 

The search was conducted using the Scopus database and covered the period 1989 to 

2021. The terms used to determine relevant studies were examined in titles, abstracts, and 

keywords. These terms were entrepreneur*,” “develop*,” “evaluate*,” and “education or 

training.” The core logic to select the Scopus database was its extensive analysis of 

universally indexed papers of a value standard by academics. Furthermore, many papers 

recognized by Scopus are also accessible in other databases. As one of the most 

comprehensive databases, Scopus can also form a different bibliographic outcome than other 

databases. Because the research of EDP evaluation remains thin, we chose to use all articles 

about this topic in Scopus, from 1989-2021, to have a rich data source. To the best of our 

knowledge, there is no existing SLR that focuses on exploring the evaluations of the EDP 

from the Scopus database published from 1989 to 2021. From this search, it can be known 

that the first papers in the Scopus were written by Wan (1989) and Curran & Stanworth. 

(1989) While Wan (1989) study focused on evaluating the type and efficacy of a company’s 

workshop program to promote business planning competencies, Curran & Stanworth (1989) 

assessed the character of entrepreneurship education. For our study, these two papers 

published in 1989 will be treated as the beginning point of the EDP evaluation discourse. 

Furthermore, we first selected documents with analytically confirmed information and 

eliminated documents other than journal articles to obtain the necessary papers.  Then, we 

chose “entrepreneur*,” “develop*,” “evaluate*,” and “education or training” as keywords to 

discover papers related to this theme. The resulting outcome was a total of 1191 papers. 

These papers then undergo four phases of elimination. First, we eliminated papers not written 

in English (reducing the article count from 1191 to 1132). Second, writings other than social, 

management, and business scope were eliminated, reducing the papers to 481. Third, we 



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excluded other disciplines to focus just on the theme. Lastly, we stopped outcomes that were 

not a journal article or different than the theme. The final result used as the base for SLR is 

366 papers. Table 1 presents a summary of the phase used in the SLR method. 

Table 1. Literature Review Exclusion Criteria 

Stage Exclusion Criteria Amount 

Stage 1 Search Scopus bibliography by “entrepreneur*,” 

“develop*,” “evaluate*,” and “education or training” 

keywords. 

1191 

Stage 2 Choosing outputs that were written in English. 1132 

Stage 3 Choosing output that focused on social, management, 

and business scope. 
481 

Stage 4 Choosing the scientific papers only, eliminate 

conference papers and review. 
366 

Figure 1. Summary of SLR Process 

 

 



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 The quality impact of the manuscript often refers to the number of citations. Although the 

usage of citation has been a debate for over decades (as the older the manuscript has had 

more time to accumulate citations), the usage of citation as the proxy of the quality of 

manuscript remained still (Dumay et al., 2014). Therefore, to overcome the bias, this study 

uses citation analysis into three points of view which are co-authors citations network 

analysis, co-citations sources network analysis, and co-citations and corresponding group 

analysis. The result of Tables 3 and 4 compare the top 10 authors and top 10 co-cited authors 

indicated that rather than a few authors dominating the rankings, the rankings show a wide 

range of authors; this reflects the breadth and diversity of scholars and institutions working in 

this field (Demartini & Beretta, 2020; Massaro et al., 2016). Furthermore, the analytical 

framework and dataset (text queries) must be defined and coded using the developed 

framework as another phase of SLR (Massaro et al., 2016). Following the coding process, we 

completed the final phase of the SLR, which involves analyzing the results to produce 

insights and critiques, respond to the research question, and make recommendations for 

future research directions. Figure 1 shows the summary of the SLR process used in the study.  

Result and Discussion 

Entrepreneurship Development Programs (EDP) Research Trends 

Figure 2. Number of Publications (EDP related) per Year 

 

Figure 1 shows the development of published researches on the topic of EDP evaluation. 

In 2001, the subject started to appear at a constant level, whereas some periods before this 

year had no papers. Between fourteen years (1989-2003), there were only 29 papers 



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published concerning EDP evaluation. The amount started to rise dramatically since 2004, 

with the largest amount of published research being 42 papers in the year 2019. At the 

beginning of 1989, the EDP study has focused on the program characteristics identification 

and their target participants. Furthermore, the program improvement is made based on the 

program’s evaluation.  Wan (1989) explores the characters and effectiveness of the enterprise 

training program. The Australian government founded this in 1989 to promote business 

planning competency. All training programs are held in the capital city of each state of 

Australia and are divided into three phases: seminar series, intensive training, and business 

plan competition. Thus, these programs were evaluated by past participants’ perception of the 

program effectiveness, economic (monetary) impact, and feedback evaluation from sources 

other than participants (employers and academicians). He found that the training program has 

effectively achieved the program’s goals to promote business planning competency. The 

evaluation of these enterprise’s workshop results is that these programs lack focus on 

personal training qualities, as they over-emphasize practical skills in business planning. 

Following Wan (1989) and Curran & Stanworth (1989), the study concerned four typologies 

of entrepreneurial education: entrepreneurial education for small businesses, entrepreneurial 

awareness for entrepreneurs, advancing industry for small business owners, and small 

business awareness. They evaluate that the program with the highest effectiveness was small 

business education for small business owners. 

Figure 3. Publications Based on Countries and Continents 

       

Figure 2 confirms that the United Kingdom (64 manuscripts), United States America (56 

manuscripts), Australia (23 manuscripts) is the most contributors of EDP-related studies in 

cumulative with the contribution of more than 50%. Europe accounted for the biggest 

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America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. Table 2 presents the top five publishers of 160 journals 

that discuss this issue. In addition, this topic began to come up in 1990 in the Journal of 

Business Venturing. The subject area of management, business, and education appears the 

most in the top-five publishers. 

Table 2. Top Five Publishers 

  Journals 
Number of 

Articles 

First 

Published  

Number of 

Citations 

SJR   

SNIP 

Subject 

Area 

Education and 

Training 
34 2005 965 

0.752 

1.504 

Bs, Mg, Ac, 

Ed 

Journal of 

Entrepreneurship 

Education 

29 2011 141 
0.283 

1.030 

Ac, Bs, Mg, 

Ed, Ec, Et  

Industry and Higher 

Education 
18 1998 196 

0.450 

0.718 
Bs, Mg, Ed 

Journal of Business 

Venturing 
12 1990 2867 

4.977 

3.700 
Bs, Mg 

Emerald Emerging 

Markets Case Studies 
11 2013 0 

0.166 

0.048 

Bs, Mg, Ed, 

St 

Note: Ac= Accounting, Bs=Business, Ed=Education, Ec=Economics, Et=Econometric, 

Mg=Management, St=Strategic 

Table 3. Top Ten Authors Based on Number of Publications 

Authors  
Number of 

Publications 

Total 

Citations 

Average 

Citations 

Jones, Paul  4 66 16.5 

Baptista, Rui 3 35 11.6 

Frese, Michael 3 127 42.3 

Januario, Carlos 3 26 8.7  

Maritz, Alex 3 25 8.7  

McElwee 3 33 11  

Naia, Ana 3 35 11.7  

Trigo, Virginia 3 35 11.7  

Abdullah, Moha Asri  2 2 1  

Balan, Peter 2 27 13.5  

 While co-author in this study is defined as one or more persons who write the article, co-

citations are the frequency in which two documents are cited together by other documents. 

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citations. Even though Jones issued the most publications related to EDP (4 publications), it 

was Fayolle that has the most cited of publications (563 citations) followed by Hornsby and 

Palich (506 and 488 citations). 

Table 4. Top Ten Co-Citations Authors 

Authors 
Number of 

Publications 

Total 

Citations 

Average 

Citations 

Fayolle, Alain 173 563 3.3 

Hornsby, Jeffrey 46 506 11.0 

Palich, Leslie. 22 488 22.2 

Fischer Eileen 71 483 6.8  

Chandler, G. N.,  24 445 18.5  

Linan, Fransisco 59 283 4.8  

Zacharakis, Andrew  34 273 8.0  

Fiet, James 33 269 8.2  

Gurol, Yonca 4 207 51.8  

Heinonen, Jarna 28 183 6.5  

The Citation Network Analysis 

The Citation Network Analysis (CNA) is based on the list of references found in journal 

articles or other types of publications. References are citations to prior works that have 

influenced the direction of a study. Even though papers with a large number of citations are 

not necessarily representative of influential and world-class research, it is widely accepted 

that citations can be used to assess the relevance of publications (Colicchia et al., 2018; 

Dawson et al., 2014). Papers may be removed from the study if no other works cite them, 

regardless of their content's importance, or if they have garnered a small number of citations 

due to their recent publication. Other technologies, like keyword analysis and citation score 

analysis, might thus complement and minimize the aforementioned flaws. Therefore, to build 

bibliographic networks, a VOS viewer was used to analyze bibliometric networks and cluster 

analysis. Figure 3 presents the co-author's network analysis based on (at least) 20 co-citations 

per author, demonstrating the “world” of five groups of the most outstanding co-authors of 

106 authors. Although these authors discuss a diverse range of topics, they cite one another 

quite frequently. It signifies the presence of a solid network (correlation) between them. It 

also can be acknowledged that the EDP study is growing by citing each other’s papers. 

Furthermore, Figure 4 that was formed with at least 20 co-citations per journal shows that 



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most of the journals – out of 78– with co-citations were issued in the recent periods and 

polarized into the six biggest connected groups. The top three journals that published EDP 

frequently are The Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and 

Journal of Small Business and Management. There is a link between groups, indicating the 

interconnection among them.  

Figure 4. Authors Citations Network Analysis (Authors Perspective) 

 

Figure 5. Co-Citations Network Analysis (Sources of Publication Perspective) 

 

For further analysis with at least four co-citations per manuscript, 80 most of the co-cited 

manuscripts were carefully chosen and classified into 5 segmented groups. These 5 groups 

selected are Group 1 that includes 30 percent of the journals and Group 2 Group 5 which has 



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17.5 percent respectively. Figure 5 proved that these five groups have a strong connection to 

each other. 

Figure 6. Co-Citations and Corresponding Group Network Analysis 

 

Group 1 

This group consists of 30 lists of the manuscript, with 8 of them having more than four 

co-citations. The authors in Group 1 evaluated the EDP based on the impact and process. 

(Kolvereid & Moen, 1997; Matlay, 2008; Matlay et al., 2009; Souitaris et al., 2007) evaluated 

the program based on the impact, while Jones did the evaluation based on the process. Matlay 

(2008) evaluated the impact of the EDP on the entrepreneurial result of the graduates of 

Higher Education Institutions. He found the entrepreneurial education improves these 

graduates with sufficient literacy and competency to enter both an entrepreneurial profession 

and their careers – after one year, five years, and ten years. The results of this ten–year–

entrepreneurship–education evaluation show that the program has a successful 

entrepreneurial outcome. The majority of participants experience fast progression on owning 

a small business or obtaining impressive management levels. Meanwhile, Souitaris et al. 

(2007) evaluated the entrepreneurship program’s result to the entrepreneurial mindset and 

motive of 250 science and engineering undergraduates from two campuses in London and 

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entrepreneurial mindset and reason. Besides, the most significant benefits come from a 

program framework that incorporates an emotional component. The results contribute to the 

planned behavior theories and education theories. The findings also have broader inferences 

for the entrepreneurial emotion philosophy and for teaching entrepreneurship practices. Next, 

Kolvereid & Moen (1997) evaluated the impact of entrepreneurship education on business 

graduates with a major in entrepreneurship versus graduates in other majors in a Norwegian 

business school. They found that graduates with a major in entrepreneurship have a bigger 

entrepreneurial motive. Lastly, Matlay et al. (2009) that evaluated the EDP in 1995-2004, 

found that EDP in the United Kingdom HEI positively impact the graduate’s mindset towards 

their career and promote the potential entrepreneurs requiring expertise and competency in 

starting, running, and growing their business (Matlay & Carey, 2007). They found that, in 

2000, the regional government funding and cultural issues were perceived as a barrier for 

EDP. In 2004, they discovered that all the 40 campuses in the samples establish 

Entrepreneurship education because of the demand from students, faculty staff affiliates, and 

government support funding.   

Katz (2003) who analyzed more than 100 publications of the Entrepreneurship Education 

in America from 1876 until 1999, found that the cited authors formed an outline to define the 

chronology of entrepreneurship education in America. This framework is beneficial as a 

guide for future research. In addition, Jones’s study provides an exclusive technique of 

understanding the learning process to be entrepreneurial in university (Jones, 2010). Based on 

the research findings, the author argues that the students in the university understand the 

limitation of entrepreneurship education they learn. Consequently, the educators should 

consider the students’ capacity to provide a better learning atmosphere to develop the 

students’ capability. Understanding the limitations of both educator and student is crucial to 

maximizing the entrepreneurship program in the university. The EDP could be evaluated 

based on two aspects: the participants and their business. The evaluation based on 

participants could be determined from the development of knowledge of entrepreneurship 

theory; the essential of entrepreneurship; the significance of entrepreneurship; creative and 

innovation competency; entrepreneurial and ethical self-evaluation; and interacting, selling, 

and negotiation. In addition, the business developments are dependent on their business 

changes: finding and estimating chances; monetary of a concept; constructing opening 

strategies; developing a business planning; getting capital; opening the enterprises; growing 

the enterprise; and harvesting plan. The program characteristic and the delivery of the EDP 

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not be dull, as the most effective programs for coaching theory are connected to definite 

persons, places, timing, contacts, and environments. 

Group 2 

This group consists of 14 list manuscripts with seven of them having more than four co-

citations, emphasizing four topics which are program evaluations, program characteristics, 

program stakeholders, and challenges. The authors in this group evaluated EDP based on the 

impact and process. The first publication assessed the influence of the Entrepreneurship 

Education Program on the students’ entrepreneurial intention. They found that the program 

had an extremely low positive effect on their recognized behavioral controls (Fayolle, A., 

Gailly B., 2006). The second paper proposes a model of entrepreneurship education majority 

stimulated by education sciences. Also, this publication analyses the ontological and 

educational of the program. Fayolle & Gailly (2008) used the proposed framework to review 

several categories of entrepreneurship education programs, concentrating on three main types 

of education processes. Moreover, Duval-couetil (2013) discussed the approach of the EDP 

evaluation. She argued that the impact evaluation should be determined by the stakeholder 

consensus, considering the diverse range of internal and external collaborators with different 

interests in the educational program. This SLR also focused on the program challenges. The 

challenges especially relate to entrepreneurship education program valuation. Moreover, she 

promoted the stakeholders’ involvement and consensus on developing, implementing, and 

evaluating entrepreneurship education programs. She also proposed to involve 

comprehensive stakeholders. The evaluation requires many resources: time, money, and 

expertise. Also, participation from expert evaluators is essential. She offered three assessment 

instruments of entrepreneurship education: evaluation on the course-level that appraises the 

participants’ reaction to an entrepreneurship program; assessment on the broader agenda that 

measures a wider array of results, including interest, expertise, response, career decision, 

business creation, financial impact; and evaluation on specific parts or ideas related to 

entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, Rauch & Hulsink (2015) have tested the effectiveness of 

entrepreneurship education. They evaluated the program impact based on the planned 

behavior theory. Then, Martin, et al. (2013) reported a meta-analysis of the formulation of 

human resources in entrepreneurship. They found a significant impact of entrepreneurship 

education and training on human resources and entrepreneurship outcomes. Also, they 

observed that the entrepreneurship outcome is stronger for entrepreneurship education 

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Furthermore, the topic of program characteristics was discussed by Fayolle & Gailly 

(2008). There are three categories of entrepreneurship programs namely learning to be 

enterprising persons, learning to be competent entrepreneurs, studying to be academicians 

(teachers or researchers in the field of entrepreneurship). Another study from Gibb (2002) 

and Gorman et al. (1997) even added that as the rising of entrepreneurship interest is mainly 

due to the pressure of globalization, the need for entrepreneurial behavior is being felt by a 

broad variety of stakeholders (e.g., pastors, medics, educators, communities, and others) with 

a concern on the market.  

Group 3 

This group consists of 14 list manuscripts that emphasize the program characteristics 

such as content program (Detienne & Chandler, 2004; Edelman et al., 2008; Fiet, 2000b). 

The first paper studied by Solomon (2007) presented an analytical synopsis of contemporary 

entrepreneurship education in the USA in 2004-2005. The second article was the research of 

Shane & Venkataraman (2000) that conceptualized the agenda of the Entrepreneurship study. 

Detienne & Chandler (2004) discussed opportunity identification as a crucial subject in the 

entrepreneurship program. They appreciated opportunity identification as a core content of 

entrepreneurship education, which can be advanced as exclusive skills. The participants can 

learn the competency through the Solomon Four Group Designed experiment. Moreover, 

while Edelman et al. (2008) found that there are some intersections and differences between 

the real-life of start-ups to the textbook content, Fiet (2000a, 2000b) in his articles, reviewed 

several assumptions that teaching theories to students have a more significant impact than 

only showing them what entrepreneurs do. He also explored the content of entrepreneurship 

education and the process of the program actualization. 

Group 4 

This group is composed of 14 manuscripts that emphasize the EDP evaluation and 

context. It contains five publications with more than three co-citations with the most of them 

concurs that EDP evaluation should be carried out based on the impact (Karlan & Valdivia, 

2011; Krueger et al., 2000; Oosterbeek et al., 2010). While Ajzen (1991) analyzed the Theory 

of Planned Behavior in EDP evaluation, Oosterbeek et al. (2010) evaluated the impact of an 

entrepreneurship education program on university scholars’ competency and enthusiasm. 

However, the latter found that the program did not achieve the expected effect. In 2011, 

Karlan & Valdivia (2011) evaluated the impact of training on microfinance customers and 

organizations. Also, Krueger et al. (2000) contrasted two intention-based schemes with their 

capacity for the entrepreneurial intention estimation. The models are based on the Planned 



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Behaviour Theory of Ajzen (1991) and the entrepreneurial event model of Shapero. They 

proposed that the prediction model should depend on the intention because situational or 

individual determinants have a low prediction ability based on the empiric cases. Finally, 

Thomas & Mueller (2000) investigated culture or the connection among philosophy on four 

personality traits that are linked with entrepreneurial passion. The personal entrepreneurial 

characteristics are innovation, locus of control, risk-taking, and energy. 

Group 5 

This group contains 14 manuscripts that emphasize EDP evaluation, characteristics, and 

challenges. Similar to the previous group, most of the manuscripts in this group concurs that 

EDP evaluation can be and should be conducted based on the impacts (Athayde, 2009; 

Fayolle & Gailiy, 2015; Graevenitz & Weber, 2009; Liñán et al., 2011; Nabi et al., 2017). On 

the first topic, Fayolle & Gailiy (2015) recommended the framework of entrepreneurial 

intention and its antecedents to evaluate the impact of the EDP. Thus, the second study of 

EDP evaluation by Nabi et al. (2017) found that the research of the EDP (education) impact 

still mainly emphasizes short-term measures with impact index based on the emotion-based 

methods and the intention-to-behavior change. Moreover, while Graevenitz & Weber (2009) 

proposed a theoretical framework of Bayesian learning to evaluate the improvement skills of 

entrepreneurship as the impact of entrepreneurship education, Athayde (2009) assessed the 

impact of the young entrepreneurship program on the participants. Lastly, Liñán et al. (2011) 

proposed the elements forming an entrepreneurial intention. They stated that personal 

characters and perceived behavioral control are the determinants of entrepreneurial intention.  

 The second topic is program characteristics. Kuratko (2005) and Pittaway & Cope 

(2007) studied the contents of EDP which is the contents of market entry, compromise skills, 

leadership, construction skills, creative problem solving, and skills to use technology and 

innovation skills, intention to be entrepreneurs, business capital, copyright, risk management, 

characters of an entrepreneur, and growth constrain. The entrepreneurship education contents 

are established based on the real-life situation: business strategy, creating business for 

scholars, discussion with industrialists, situation investigation, and case study. 

 Thirdly, the program challenges topic. Kuratko (2005) divided the challenges of 

entrepreneurship study into ten issues namely stagnation, low quality of publications, lack of 

academician experts in entrepreneurship, low level of technology usage, the dot-com 

tradition, conflicting of academia with the real-life, the dilution of entrepreneurship, 

managing the risk, the leadership revolving of academic administrative, and the one-man 

show. Therefore, to overcome the challenges in promoting entrepreneurship programs, the 



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usage of robust theoretical and conceptual basics combine with a real investigation (not take 

it for granted) is a mandatory act (Fayolle, 2013).  

Discussion 

 The descriptive of EDP issue from the five selected groups above is mostly concerned 

with program evaluation, characteristics, challenges, stakeholders, and context. In addition, 

the topic of program evaluation and program characteristics are recognized as the main 

significant them of EDP evaluation (See Table 5). In addition, the findings show that most 

evaluations are conducted based on the impact of the program. Just a few of the papers 

consider the process of EDP as the assessment of the EDP implementation.  

Table 5. EDP Issues 

Group Evaluation Characteristics Challenges Stakeholders Context 

1 √ √    

2 √ √ √ √  

3  √    

4 √    √  

5 √ √ √    

Table 5 above illustrates the five topics of co-authors in the EDP-related studies. From 

the existing papers, several topics are discussed, with some of them revealing similarities. 

The most significant issues are program evaluations and program characteristics, found in 

four groups. Firstly, EDP can be evaluated based on impacts and processes (although most of 

the assessments also assess the implications to assess the program achievement). To appraise 

the result of the program is necessary, but to assume by its impact alone is significantly 

insufficient, as the goal of the review is to improve the program. The findings above also 

reveal that a few articles review the process. Nevertheless, since two other minority authors 

use the process as a basis of a program evaluation, it can be considered as rebalancing the 

program evaluation and identifying current and future trends.   

There were five topics discussed in the literature. The first topic was the EDP evaluation. 

The literature on EDP evaluation reveals that EDP evaluations are primarily concerned with 

the impact of the program on the participants' capabilities and their business. Nevertheless, 

just a few of the bibliography suggested for review on the EDP implementation process, such 

as the delivery process, the expertise of stakeholders involved, and other aspects of the 

implementation process. Even though most previous research conducted the EDP evaluation 



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based on the impact, this study expands the scope for EDP evaluation based on both effect 

and the process. The aim to evaluate the impact is to find whether the intended goals are 

achieved or not. Besides, the objectives of the review of the operation of the EDP are to find 

out the quality of the process and improvement purposes. The findings conclude the 

assessment typology based on both the impact to see the result and the process that consist of 

the evaluation of the impact and process, the evaluation of the impact, and the evaluation of 

the process. However, since the EDP evaluation is complex due to the variety of the content, 

purpose, and approach (Fayolle & Gailiy, 2015), the EDP evaluation should be conducted to 

ensure the program enhancement (Warhuus et al., 2017). This EDP evaluation and 

implementation need the participation of various stakeholders who have resources of 

expertise, money, and information (Bischoff et al., 2018; Duval-couetil, 2013) in short, 

medium, and long-term periods of evaluation (Galvão et al., 2019; Matlay, 2011). While 

numerous researchers evaluated the EDP based on the impact to measure the effectivity, 

nevertheless the evaluation of the process of the execution was also needed to ensure 

improvements of the future EDP. Consequently, it is suggested to evaluate EDP based on the 

impact and the process of the EDP.  

The second topic discusses three program characteristics: program delivery, design 

programs, and program content. Thirdly, the discussion is about challenges, namely the 

program implementation, the challenge to understand the program, and the challenge of 

evaluating. Since the sources of the program come from the activity of attention of various 

stakeholders, then the success level depends on the stakeholder’s participation level (Galvão 

et al., 2017). The fourth issue is the stakeholder. Bischoff et al. (2018) declared that 

stakeholder theory in a business context commonly refers to the organizations and individuals 

who can influence or be influenced by business activities. There are more than ten 

stakeholder categories that were defined by Leonidou et al. (2020) which consists of 

academia, government, community, customers, service intermediaries, user community, 

suppliers, business networks, start-up teams, innovation intermediaries, social media, 

university peers, NGOs, industry cluster, associations, friend and family. However, these 

wider ranges of stakeholders have often produced contra-productive conflict between each 

other due to the different systems and interests of each stakeholder. Some authors use 

Quadruple Helix (Dhewanto et al., 2021; Primanto et al., 2018), the Penta Helix (Tonkovic et 

al., 2015), collaboration, and the individual actors’ model (Rustiadi & Arina, 2019) as a 

framework to analyze the roles that stakeholders. Finally, the last issue of EDP evaluation in 

this study is the context, which means the diversity of programs.  



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Conclusion and Suggestion 

In this literature review, we have investigated 366 EDP manuscript related and explored 

several issues such as program evaluation, characteristics, challenges, stakeholders, and 

context, with program evaluation and characteristics. This study shows that most manuscripts 

that conducted EDP evaluations are based on the program's impact on the participants' 

competency, their businesses, or their career. While a few that the review of the process of 

EDP as the success criterion of EDP implementation. This study helps to identify EDP 

evaluation criteria based on their impact and process so it can produce a more comprehensive 

evaluation to improve EDP implementation. From a practical perspective, this study shows 

the policymaker the benefits of EDP evaluation. Other EDP studies may also be inspired to 

conduct EDP evaluation to make the program more effective and efficient. In summary, to 

accomplish the goal effectively and efficiently, there should be an evaluation of the goal’s 

achievement and the antecedents. 

The limitation of this study is the use of the Scopus database by excluding some papers 

in which involves subjectivity in grouping the articles and choosing the keywords. Future 

research could include Web of Science bibliographies, books, book chapters, and conference 

papers as sources. Future studies could also be an investigation on the evolution of the EDP 

implementation and evaluation during 1947-1989. It would also be compelling to discuss the 

conduct of the evaluation of EDP within Asia, Australia, and Africa contexts. Furthermore, 

future studies should also consider the need to explore, reflect, and ask questions more 

critically, not on the side of being taken for granted. For instance, by asking again, how could 

a program improvement be accomplished with a thorough evaluation? Considering the 

available resources are very limited, how do we do the evaluation? Is there any other benefit 

besides study, insight, and talent? Are there any differences between trainers with a practical 

background to the academician one? Do innovative ideas lead to wealth creation? Do the 

program significantly influence the business performance? 

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