The Entrepreneurship Academy / Team Academy is an environment where teams of students learn business by creating and operating real businesses, with the assistance of a Team Coach. At the base of the entire methodoly, developed in Finland by Johanes Partanen between 1993 and 2001, lie several key concepts:

• No students, but a team of entrepreneurs
• No theory, but learning by doing
• No case studies, but real businesses
• No classrooms, but office spaces
• No control, but self-organization