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Guidance supporting Europe’s aspiring entrepreneurs
Policy and practice to harness future potential

entrepreneurs with skills and competences to manage not only their new
business but also their career. Networking and peer learning and support
opportunities for new entrepreneurs should also be promoted.

Research
This study suggests that more attention will have to be given in the coming years
to broadening and deepening the evidence base in the area of
entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship education in Europe and in the individual
Member States. It also reiterates one of the key recommendations of the 2008
Council Resolution on lifelong guidance: it has demonstrated the need for closer
and stronger links between policy, practice and research related to guidance. A
strong evidence base is needed to support this policy agenda: such evidence is
necessary to affect change and demonstrate how and why different approaches
work, for whom and in which education, training or employment contexts. This
study goes some way towards cataloguing the current evidence base, though it
demonstrates that additional research is required to understand fully the impact
of entrepreneurial learning activities and supersede anecdotal evidence. In
summary, the communities of policy, research and practice seem to be facing
questions of considerable significance that require more systematic analyses to
move forward policies and strategies linked to entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship
education. The extent to which policy-makers, academics and practitioners are
currently equipped to understand their role in promoting entrepreneurship/
entrepreneurship learning is an important issue that should be explored further.

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