Engaging in the pursuit of your own ideas and then turn them into a successful business is an intensely gratifying pursuit. Entrepreneurship lets people create careers that are aligned with their ideals, such as helping others or protecting the environment. This can bring a sense of emotional and mental fulfillment which other jobs don’t.

Entrepreneurship is a social issue, that involves complex interactions between people and the social context in which they live, play, and learn. It is the reason it is often considered an important field of research for the social sciences. It is also an interdisciplinary field that draws from the disciplines of sociology, management law as well as anthropology, public policy and non-profit management.

In this article, we review the research on the entrepreneurship education of non-business students and propose an interdisciplinary framework for existing research based upon four dimensions of social learning – observational learning, the role played by mentors and peers as well as the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a resource for social learning, and the role of institutions in influences on learning. We also examine how this framework could be utilized in the importance of social sciences a more systematic fashion to guide research and development of entrepreneurial education in the coming years. We also present an in-depth bibliometric analysis supported by VOSviewer and Bibliometrix which highlight the most prominent authors, institutions and countries, seminar papers journals, themes, and seminar articles. This provides a complete and thorough understanding of the state of the field. The analysis also contains information about future research areas and gaps in knowledge.