The Longitudinal Experiential Entrepreneurship Education Project (LEEEP): Introducing the Survey and Future Research Avenues

This paper introduces the Longitudinal Experiential Entrepreneurship Education Project (LEEEP), a large-scale research program designed to examine critical variables in experiential entrepreneurship education. Using a quasi-experimental design with data collected pre- and post-participation in an entrepreneurship experiential learning course, the LEEEP dataset comprises a sample of nearly 18,000 students enrolled at nearly 200 universities across the United States. This paper provides information on the course context, the study design, and the measurement approach. Initial results indicate significant differences in the main variables of the study before and after the course, suggesting the influence of the experiential course. Future research avenues are discussed, encouraging scholars to leverage the LEEEP dataset, a free, publicly available database, to advance the field of entrepreneurship education.