Pais Zozimo, JoanaN-Yelkabong, AnthonyLockett, NigelDada, LolaJack, Sarah L.2023-01-302023-01-302023-111350-5076PURE: 50365150PURE UUID: 5708aa0d-1b10-4a68-8c61-20eb671ed037Scopus: 85138305587WOS: WOS:000854308500001http://hdl.handle.net/10362/148410Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the UK Research & Innovation through Global Challenge Research Fund grant: GCRF RECIRCULATE: Driving eco-innovation in Africa: Capacity-building for a safe circular water economy, Grant Ref.: ES/P010857/1. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022.This article contributes to extending the current conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning by challenging the assumption that entrepreneurial learning is solely embodied in the entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial learning is an emergent trend that involves a developmental approach to learning in acting on opportunities and experiences. We apply a social practice theory to entrepreneurial learning to advance understanding of the value of entrepreneurial thinking towards informal, experiential and aspirational learning. We position entrepreneurial learning within the social learning and social practice literature in the (1) alternative formats to formal learning, and (2) implications of entrepreneurial learning, as a social practice, for management learning and entrepreneurship education research. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis of a co-created entrepreneurial learning programme for ‘Stimulating Entrepreneurial Thinking in Scientists’, this study shows that entrepreneurial thinking can be expanded beyond the entrepreneur, and developed by others such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics scientists. With the drive for individuals to become entrepreneurial in their everyday practices, our study contributes towards extending the conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning through insights from social practice theory. In addition, by understanding the value of entrepreneurial thinking, particularly via non-formal and informal approaches to learning, our research expands underexposed issues of entrepreneurial learning across diverse audiences, contexts and disciplines.23283466engEntrepreneurial learningentrepreneurship educationmanagement learningsituated learningsocial practice theoryWest AfricaL EducationH Social SciencesLC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing educationGeneral Decision SciencesStrategy and ManagementManagement of Technology and InnovationSDG 4 - Quality EducationSDG 10 - Reduced InequalitiesSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingjournal article10.1177/13505076221111399https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85138305587