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21st century skills such as complex problem-solving, creative and innovative thinking, and teamwork and collaboration can be developed in the classroom via entrepreneurship education. However, entrepreneurship educators face a particular challenge--how to encourage students to use innovation and creativity to engage in ideation/opportunity identification/recognition and then find a way to bring these opportunities to market. One practical barrier that sometimes needs to be overcome is the belief on the part of many students that they are 'not creative '. Effectuation, or starting with what you've got and trying to create something new, being open to the surprises that emerge in the process of just doing something, is proposed as a useful pedagogical model. After an overview of key concepts, suggestions are given for how to design entrepreneurial exercises or activities, using an effectual approach, to unleash creativity by 'breaking the frame ', imposing constraints, offering rewards based on goals with clear and fair rules, and requiring students to work in teams. It is proposed that incorporating these suggestions might inspire students to apply these concepts, to identify opportunities and act entrepreneurially, everywhere, all the time., INTRODUCTION In the 21st century, certain universal skills can lead to success. Most of these skills are not new: leadership experience, communication and problem solving skills, ability to work in [...]

High-growth entrepreneurial ventures can be the engine of economic growth, but need the support of a diverse and well-integrated entrepreneurial ecosystem in order to succeed. Sufficient resources from multiple stakeholders in the local environment are necessary in order to maintain and grow these ventures. The presence of peripheral stakeholders such as small non-scalable businesses are proposed as critical to the success of entrepreneurial activity. Therefore, peripheral stakeholder needs must be considered. Suggestions are made for engagement of all entities in a conversation about how to identify and nurture a fertile ground for development and growth. To start, all the various resource providers who depend on entrepreneurial activity should identify niche players who may have chosen to stay small. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]