The Effectiveness of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in China

Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to trace the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in China, and to evaluate its effectiveness and limitations.Design/methodology/approach—Primary data are collected to reveal students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the innovation and entrepreneurship teaching and their knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship.Findings—The results show that innovation and entrepreneurship education in China is not matching students’ skill expectations with skill acquisition. The findings also indicate that students have a low assessment of their ability to innovate.Research limitations/implications—The paper only concerns students’ perceptions towards the effectiveness of innovation education. Results from this paper are limited in terms of their ability to demonstrate “actual” outcomes of innovation education.Practical implications—The paper provides an important exploratory analysis of the state of innovation education in China to enable further research to be taken in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship education. The findings provide valuable insight on effective teaching methodologies in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship education.Originality/value—The paper provide a basis to improve the effectiveness of innovation and entrepreneurship education in China.