A FREE ONLINE TOOL 

FOR ANY STUDENT 

TO UNDERSTAND AND APPLY

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET

The Mindset Behaviour Analysis (MBA) tool introduces students from any academic discipline to the concept of the entrepreneurial mindset and its practical application in studying and career planning.



Students from all academic disciplines can gain valuable benefits from an understanding of the concept of the entrepreneurial mindset. The mindset is highly relevant not just to those graduates who aspire to become entrepreneurs but any graduate who aims to have a career as an employee in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

The MBA tool provides an active and personalised learning experience, enabling each student to analyse and improve their entrepreneurial behaviours. On completion of the MBA tool, a student receives a personal email with all their results and recommendations for action.

Feedback from students is overwhelmingly positive. They are often surprised to find how relevant the mindset is and how quickly they can put it into practice. The level of student satisfaction with the MBA tool is above 90% (using a standard CSAT calculation). The MBA tool is provided by the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network.


A definition of the entrepreneurial mindset that is easy for students to understand and use



The Mindset Behaviour Analysis tool uses a mnemonic that summarises the concept of the entrepreneurial mindset into seven behaviours that are easy for students to understand and to remember. One entrepreneurial behaviour is allocated to each of the seven letters in the word MINDSET. The MBA tool describes how an entrepreneur and a student can use each of these seven entrepreneurial behaviours.


A flexible tool that educators can easily integrate into their teaching for any discipline


Educators first share an MBA weblink and invite each student to complete the questions in the tool, which typically takes about 10 minutes.  Each student immediately receives an email with all their results.


Educators can then support deeper learning through small group discussions of the individual MBA results and by presenting supplementary learning materials.


To create an active and personalised learning experience the design of the MBA tool used published research into learning by doing, reflective practice, self-assessment and digital tools.


Three student learning outcomes


1 To remember and understand the behaviours that define the entrepreneurial mindset. 


2 To analyse and evaluate existing entrepreneurial behaviours.


3 To create a plan of action for using the entrepreneurial behaviours more often.


A group of students use the MBA tool at the same time, however, the questions in the MBA tool are written so that each student can adapt this shared learning experience to their individual context.


Added Value Reports that provide evidence of students' entrepreneurial behaviours

Add Value Reports contain analyses of the anonymised data collected by the MBA tool. These reports offer educators new insights into the entrepreneurial behaviour of their students and provide much-needed evidence of the impact of teaching. All data collected by the MBA tools is anonymised, in accordance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. 

Added Value Report 1 Analysis

Analysis of behaviours and actions for a student group


MINDSET - Innovate

Always        Often       Sometimes      Rarely         Never


Report contents


For each of the seven entrepreneurial behaviours:


  • a bar chart showing the frequency distribution of the use of the behaviour by the group of students 
  • a list of all actions proposed by students



Value Added


Each student can benchmark their entrepreneurial behaviours against their peers in the group.


Each student can enhance their learning by comparing their individual ideas for action against the ideas crowdsourced from the peers in their group. 


Educators can see the range of abilities amongst students and can tailor their teaching according to individual student needs.


Added Value Report 2 Benchmarking

Benchmarking of the behaviours and actions of a student group


Group students

All students

MINDSET - Innovate

Always        Often     Sometimes      Rarely       Never


Report contents


For each of the seven entrepreneurial behaviours:


  • a bar chart of the use of the behaviour by the group in comparison to all students who have used the MBA tool
  • an AI generated summary of the actions proposed by every student 



Value Added


Students can benchmark their entrepreneurial behaviours, as individuals and as a group, against their international peers.


The confidence of each student grows as they see how they have contributed to a set of crowdsourced ideas.


Educators can see the abilities of their students in comparison to other international students and can consider changes to the curriculum and teaching methods.

Added Value Report 3 Impact

Impact of teaching and change of behaviours of a student group



Before

After

MINDSET - Dare to take risks

Always        Often     Sometimes       Rarely       Never


Report contents


For each of the seven entrepreneurial behaviours:


  • a bar chart comparing the frequency of the entrepreneurial behaviours of students in a group, at two points in time i.e. before and after a workshop, project, module or course




Value Added


Students understand how their behaviours have changed over time.


Educators have evidence of the changes in the behaviours of their students that can be used to demonstrate student progression and achievement, and to evaluate changes in curricula and teaching, and to support quality assurance and marketing.



Educators can choose the plan that meets their needs

FREE


If you are an educator you can sign up for free use of the MBA tool with your students.


You will receive


A link to a test version of the MBA tool that will allow you to familiarise yourself with the tool before you use it with your students.


A short guide to using the MBA tool with your students.


The link to the MBA tool for students.


Prices for Added Value Reports, pay-as-you-go and subscriptions.


PAY AS YOU GO 


Once you have signed up for a free account, you can then purchase Value Added Reports.


You will receive


Your choice of Added Value Reports with benchmarking data. We charge a fixed fee for each Report.



NOTE: Added Value Reports must be requested in advance of using the MBA tool with your students.



ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION


An annual subscription gives the best value for money, and support for students and educators.


You will receive


A one-hour webinar for a student group that introduces the MBA tool and the entrepreneurial mindset.


Added Value Report 1 and 2 for you to use with the student group.


One-to-one support to help you gain the maximum benefit from Added Value Report 3.


Inspiring resources

Additional resources are available to provide inspiration to educators who want to use the MBA tool with students. Click on any image to view the resource onscreen, and access the options to download and print.

eZINE 7(2) Marco Lamas and Paul Coyle
xCHANGE 17 Marco Lamas and Paul Coyle
eZINE 8(1) Laura Bradley and Isobel Cunningham

The following books are available to purchase. 'Entrepreneurial Mindset' published by Blurb  is a step-by-step guide to using the entrepreneurial mindset for students of any academic discipline. Educators will find inspiration in the book 'Entrepreneurship Education' published by Routledge which contains the chapter Scaling Higher Education Innovation Using the Entrepreneurial Mindset: An Interim Report of the International SHINE Project Involving Entrepreneurship Educators from 25 Countries.  The book 'Innovation and Entrepreneurship' published by Routledge contains the chapter How a digital Mindset Behaviour Analysis tool can help healthcare students to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

Book; entrepreneurial mindset
Book: entrepreneurship education
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