This study contributes to the research field of entrepreneurship education by providing a new perspective that combines concepts of the entrepreneurial teacher, entrepreneurial teaching methods and the development of entrepreneurial competences in students. As being entrepreneurial in the teaching context can be explored from various angles, the paper focuses on two important elements of this construct: the innovativeness and risk-taking ability of the teacher. The authors present empirical evidence from 1,011 higher education teachers from 21 different higher education institutions in Finland. The results show that a teacher’s innovativeness and risk-taking ability have a positive relationship with the use of entrepreneurial teaching methods, and influences how the teacher encourages the development of students’ entrepreneurial competences. An innovative and risk-taking teacher varies the teaching methods used in entrepreneurship education. The study suggests that teachers with a lower level of innovativeness and lower risk-taking ability do not use as many entrepreneurial teaching methods as more innovative and risk-taking teachers. In addition, the results confirm the importance of the teacher’s own innovativeness and risk-taking when fostering students’ entrepreneurial competences.

这项研究为企业家精神教育的研究领域提供了新的视角，它将企业家教师的概念，企业家的教学方法和学生的企业家能力的发展相结合。由于可以从各个角度探讨在教学环境中的企业家精神，因此本文着重探讨了这一构架的两个重要要素：教师的创新性和冒险能力。作者提供了来自芬兰21个不同高等教育机构的1,011名高等教育老师的经验证据。结果表明，教师的创新能力和承担风险的能力与企业家教学方法的使用有正相关关系，并影响着教师如何鼓励学生创业能力的发展。富有创新精神和冒险精神的老师会改变创业教育中使用的教学方法。研究表明，具有较低创新能力和较低冒险能力的教师所使用的创业教学方法不如具有更多创新能力和冒险精神的教师那样多。此外，研究结果证实了在培养学生的创业能力时，教师自身的创新能力和冒险精神的重要性。