Routledge Focus on Team Academy

Higher Education organizations (HE) operate in an environment that continuously pushes towards innovation by educators. From this perspective, Team Academy is seen as an innovative pedagogical model that enhances social connectivity, as well as experiential, student-centred and team based learning. It also creates spaces for transformative learning to occur. 

Since its creation in Finland in 1993, the number of institutions adopting this approach has been expanding in many parts of Europe and beyond, and it is increasingly attracting the interest of organizations that want to adopt a model that emphasizes on the transversal competences and skills acquired by its entrepreneurial learners. The aim of this series is to compile the different research, experiences, and stories about the Team Academy phenomenon throughout its worldwide network.

The audience of the books is multidisciplinary, directed to academics and practitioners. Entrepreneurial education and research has traditionally been focused on the individual entrepreneur. However, in the current business scenario, entrepreneurs’ ́ teamwork efforts, social capital and networking skills are essential to face the entrepreneurial issues and challenges that they currently face. The books adopt a Team Academy pedagogical approach that focuses on critical factors such as team and experiential learning, leadership, or entrepreneurial mindset, which makes this collection a key information source for those looking at new directions of entrepreneurship education and practice.