Exploring Innovative Entrepreneurship and Its Ties to Higher Educational Experiences Matthew J. Mayhew • Jeffrey S. Simonoff • William J. Baumol • Batia M. Wiesenfeld • Michael W. Klein Received: 29 July 2011 / Published online: 9 March 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract The purpose of this paper was to explore innovative entrepreneurship and to gain insight into the educational practices and experiences that increase the likelihood that a student would graduate with innovative entrepreneurial intentions. To this end, we administered a battery of assessments to 3,700 undergraduate seniors who matriculated in the spring of 2007; these students attended one of ﬁve institutions participating in this study. Results showed that, after controlling for a host of personality, demographic, edu- cational, and political covariates, taking an entrepreneurial course and the assessments faculty use as pedagogical strategies for teaching course content were signiﬁcantly related to innovation intentions. Implications for higher education stakeholders are discussed. Keywords Innovation  Quantitative  College student  College impact Recent economic crises have generated renewed national interest in understanding the relationship between education and innovative entrepreneurship and its role in meeting the M. J. Mayhew (&)  M. W. Klein Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, 239 Greene Street, Suite #300, New York, NY 10003, USA e-mail: matt.mayhew@nyu.edu J. S. Simonoff Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West 4th Street, Room 8–54, New York, NY 10012, USA e-mail: jsimonof@stern.nyu.edu W. J. Baumol Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West 4th Street, Room 7–98, New York, NY 10012, USA e-mail: wbaumol@stern.nyu.edu B. M. Wiesenfeld Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West 4th Street, Room 7–52, New York, NY 10012, USA e-mail: bwiesenf@stern.nyu.edu 123 Res High Educ (2012) 53:831–859 DOI 10.1007/s11162-012-9258-3