NIKOSNewsWall Street Journal article on Entrepreneurship Education featuring Rainer

Wall Street Journal article on Entrepreneurship Education featuring Rainer

Wall Street Journal article on Entrepreneurship Education featuring Rainer

An article on entrepreneurship education and how it could be taught to technology students has appeared in WSJ last week. The article features results of a study that Rainer has co-authored, as well as his experiences as an entrepreneurship educator to technology students. Please find more here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/stem-students-shortchanged-in-entrepreneurship-classes-1511751600

Rainer suggests the Lean Startup Approach to be a suitable approach to entrepreneurship education. “LMS does both: It provides some structure that students may seek. For example, through the use of different business model canvas types, and through iterative cycles of experimentation. It also provides room for creativity, as the tools within the LSM toolbox are not carved in stone, and need to be applied differently in each startup situation.” Rainer continues research on LSM. A recent project is on the research question of whether the use of LMS is positively related to startup project performance. Initial results show that this is indeed the case.

  Rainer Harms 

NIKOS/ESIM has been using the LSM approach to entrepreneurship teaching since more than 5 years. NIKOS/ESIM teachers use LSM variants in their own Business Administration Bachelor programme, and in programmes for tech students such as in EIT security&privacy, EIT human-computer interaction, CREATE, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Minor, the nanotechnology master, and other programmes.