Program participation impacts on emotion regulation instead of cognitive or other socio-emotional skills
In our research, we do not find strong evidence for changes in cognitive skills as a result of participation in the entrepreneurship program. This result likely stems from the program’s focus on socio-emotional skills as well as the age of the targeted population. This result is consistent with related work, such as Almlund et al.Although the discussion of the role played by socio-emotional skills in the production function of entrepreneurs is still open, numerous researchers have highlighted these skills as a key component of entrepreneurial activity and the need to incorporate emotional dimensions in the analysisWe find that the program had a significant impact on the students’ emotional state, as indicated by a decrease in arousal and valence indices at resting state, based on EEG recordings. We also estimate significant declines in the participants’ emotional responsiveness to negative stimuli that we interpret as an increase in the ability to regulate emotions among participants. Since the focus is on learning from failure or adverse outcomes, it is unsurprising to find no significant response to positive stimuli. Considering the statistical significance of these results, the magnitude of the impact (i.e., from 0.13 