Publications 2015

Below publications are listed in order according to year. They include mappings, impact assessments, analyses, project publications and factsheets etc. Other publications which the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship has supported or helped to produce are also on the list. All downloads are free.

The Foundation's education material can be found under "Education".

(Oct. 2015, in Danish)

329 student startups applied for a Micro grant in the period June 2014 to May 2015. The analysis is based on a survey with 89 responses from applicants of whom 50 received a Micro grant and 39 were rejected (these function as control group).

The results of the survey is that a Micro grant positively influences the survival rate of startups. Another result is that earlier experience with entrepreneurship has an influence on the quality of the application and thus for the chance of receiving a grant. A third result is that Micro grants create jobs; in the experimental group, far more jobs were created than in the control group. Finally, the grant recipients were far better than the control group members at obtaining growth capital. And growth capital, again, increases the ability to create jobs.

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship completed 2013-2015 the project Entrepreneurship in Education in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR-EE). The purpose was to gather the countries around the Baltic Sea and Norway and discuss and exchange experiences and knowledge about entrepreneurship in education. The project was financed through funds under the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR).

As part of the new initiative for the continuing education of teachers, the Danish Foundation for Entrepreneurship has made a survey of teachers' need for continuing education in innovation and entrepreneurship. This publication describes the results of the survey, which is based on the responses from 422 teachers (a response rate of 45%). The initiative, which is supported by the Oticon Foundation and the VELUX Foundations,  consists of two projects, "E3U" (teaching on all 3 education levels) and "Fagligt Entreprenørskab" (teaching in VET education). The initiative is based on the latest impact assessment, which among others indicates that teacher competences have a large influence on the effect of entrepreneurship education on pupils and students.

(Feb. 2015, in Danish) 

Since 2011, 178 Mikro grants have been awarded to students with good startup ideas. A survey of the grant recipients shows that a Micro grant influences how much time is spent on the startup idea, that grant recipients create jobs, that they actively seek new capital. They also have positive expectations of the future, market their startup and develop prototypes and websites.

The Taxonomy gathers the Foundation’s knowledge about and experience with entrepreneurship and provides perspectives on entrepreneurship education and how to practise and evaluate this form of education as a pedagogical practice.

The Taxonomy draws on the thinking behind the Progression model (2013), seeks to answer some of the questions posed there, and adds some of the Foundation's latest research knowledge.

(in Danish)

This publication maps entrepreneurship education for the Danish educational sector in 2014/2015. The total mapping shows that 241,000 of all 1.25 mio. pupils and students in the Danish education system participated in entrepreneurship education in the school year 2014/2015. This corresponds to 19.3 percent.