Histories of entrepreneurship education

Entrepreneurship education often appears as a recent innovationshaped by contemporary challenges or zeitgeist. Historical evi-dence, however, shows it has deeper roots and greater complexitythan commonly assumed. This special issue adopts a ‘marketplace’metaphor to show how supply-push (academic initiatives and ped-agogical innovations) and demand-pull (policy agendas, practi-tioner needs) factors have shaped educational practices acrosstime and place. The four featured articles uncover distinct historicalcontexts in which entrepreneurship education arose and evolved,challenging the prevailing notion of its recent emergence.Together, these studies demonstrate how earlier practices influ-enced the ways entrepreneurship is currently taught and under-stood. Ultimately, this special issue prompts educators andresearchers to consider how the past can inform innovative direc-tions for entrepreneurship education moving forward.