Taking action to pursue your own ideas and then turn them into a successful business is a highly satisfying pursuit. Entrepreneurship enables people to fashion careers that align with their values, like helping others or protecting the environment. These jobs provide a physical and mental satisfaction that other jobs can’t.

Entrepreneurship is a multifaceted social phenomenon that requires complex interactions between people and their societal contexts in which they ukpip.org/ work, live and play as well as learn. It is the reason it is often seen as an important field of research for the social sciences. It is also an inter-disciplinary area that draws from the disciplines of anthropology, law and public policy as well as sociology and management.

In this article, we present the research on the entrepreneurship education of non-business students and propose a synergetic framework for the existing research that is based on four dimensions of social learning – observational learning, the role of mentors and peers, the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a resource for social learning, and the role of institutions in influences on learning. We then examine how this framework could be utilized in a more systematic way to guide research and the development of entrepreneurial education in the coming years. We also provide a thorough analysis of bibliometrics, supported by VOSviewer, Bibliometrix and highlighting the most well-known authors, institutions and countries, seminar articles journals, and topics. This allows a comprehensive and precise understanding of the state of the field. The analysis also offers information on future research areas and knowledge gaps.