Coopetition: Industrial Interplay to Foster Innovative Entrepreneurship in Energy Engineering Education

The strategic alliances formed in the framework of accelerating the energy transition towards renewable energy systems have boosted coopetitive relations between industrial players. In this context, engineering education has been challenged to involve active learning methods, releasing coopetition as educative knowledge for engaging in entrepreneurship and innovation. This paper aims to examine the engagement capacity of the Innovation Journey and Entrepreneurship Journey due to the influence of the energy industry experiences in the learning process. New energy engineering educative methods instruct on entrepreneurial theories, as effectuation and causation, due to gain of industry practices knowledge. This suggests energy engineering master students could be embedded in the social structure of entrepreneurship, recognizing cognitive and contextual resources to manage the uncertainty of becoming an energy entrepreneur.