Taking action to pursue one’s own ideas and turn them into a business is a highly satisfying pursuit. Entrepreneurship allows people to build careers that align with their core values, such as helping others or protecting the environment. This provides an emotional and mental fulfillment that other jobs can’t.

Entrepreneurship is a complicated social phenomenon that involves a variety ukpip.org/partnership/ of interactions between people and their societal contexts in which they work, live and play, as well as learn. It is therefore often seen as a significant research area in the social sciences. It is also an interdisciplinary field that draws from the disciplines of sociology, management law, anthropology, public policy and non-profit management.

In this article, we review the research on the education of entrepreneurs for non-business students. We also propose an interdisciplinary framework for existing research that is based on four dimensions of social learning – observational learning, the role of mentors and peers as well as the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a tool for social learning, and the role of institutions in influences on learning. We also consider how this framework can be utilized more effectively to guide future research and improvement in the field of entrepreneurship education. We also present a detailed bibliographic analysis, aided by VOSviewer, Bibliometrix and highlighting the most prominent authors and institutions as well as countries, seminars, articles and journals, as well as the most popular themes. This provides a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the present situation in the field. The analysis also provides information on future research areas and gaps in knowledge.