| ACE | Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship |
| AD | Associate degree |
| AHSS | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| AMFI | Amsterdam Fashion Institute |
| AUAS | Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences |
| BERD | Business expenditure on research and development |
| CoE | Centres of Expertise |
| DRZ | De Rotterdamse Zaak |
| DutchCE | Dutch Centres for Entrepreneurship |
| ECTS | European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System |
| ESP | Entrepreneurial Skills Pass |
| EU | European Union |
| EUR | Erasmus University |
| FES | Economic Reinforcement Fund |
| FOEL | Festival of Entrepreneurial Learning |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| HAN | Arnhem and Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences |
| HEI | Higher education institution |
| ISCED | International Standard Classification of Education |
| IT | Information technology |
| KNAW | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| LERU | League of European Research Universities |
| MNC | Multinational corporations |
| MU | Maastricht University |
| NLPO | National network of entrepreneurship lectors in universities of applied sciences |
| NRTO | Dutch Council of Training and Education |
| NVAO | Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders |
| NWO | Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PBL | Problem-based learning |
| R&D | Research and development |
| RVO | Netherlands Enterprise Agency |
| SEP | Standard Evaluation Protocol |
| SMEs | Small and medium-sized enterprises |
| STEM | Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics |
| UAS | University/Universities of Applied Sciences |
| UU | Utrecht University |
| UvA | University of Amsterdam |
| VET | Vocational education and training |
| VH | Representative organisation of Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences |
| VSNU | Representative organisation of Dutch Research Universities |
| VU | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |