ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship is a key driver for innovation, social and economic development, and a major source of employment, and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) foster entrepreneurial behaviours and capacities. Entrepreneurship Education (EE) has a key role in shaping student entrepreneurs to incorporate the SDGs into their future business ventures. There has been an increased interest in teaching and learning entrepreneurship through the sustainability lens. This chapter focuses on exploring SDGs-driven EE and its role in education in HEIs. It outlines a case study of a government-sponsored EE initiative designed to embed the SDGs into EE and the ecosystem within an Irish HEI. This initiative seeks to strengthen and further advance an SDGs-driven entrepreneurship culture at an Irish HEI, through a variety of tools created for the modern student: micro-credentials, short courses, simulation game, and a summer school. The output is to embed an SDGs-driven entrepreneurship culture across an institution's entrepreneurship ecosystem for students, staff, and alumni, to identify a step-by-step process to do this and to forge new pathways for an international exchange of knowledge and best practices in the area of SDGs-driven EE.
