Integrating research results in entrepreneurship training can be a crucial aspect of improving entrepreneurial teaching and learning in general. For example, an explicit demand by management to integrate research results into entrepreneurship education can increase the attractiveness of teaching activities for active researchers, as it provides...
External stakeholders are an important source of expertise that can be used in the design and delivery of entrepreneurial teaching and learning. Regular engagement with external stakeholders is key in addressing future skills needs and addressing societal challenges. Guest lecturers, life case studies and interviews are some of the frequently used...
An entrepreneurial learning experience provides opportunities to develop important skills and competences. These are essential for both graduate entrepreneurs as well as entrepreneurial graduates entering employment. An HEI that values entrepreneurial learning commits to regular review, validation, the updating of course content and learning...
Extracurricular learning opportunities are an important complementary part of entrepreneurship teaching and learning provision. An entrepreneurial and innovative HEI should offer a range of informal learning opportunities to students to inspire individuals to act entrepreneurially. Supporting entrepreneurial behaviour can be challenging, as it...
Innovation and diversity in the HEI's approach to teaching and learning (including flexible learning pathways) should accompany the development of the entrepreneurial mindset and competences across all departments and programmes. This can be achieved through: Offering tailored entrepreneurship courses across all subject areas and levels of study...
Higher education, and higher education institutions more generally, play a pivotal role, in their local communities and the wider ecosystem in supporting and driving regional, social and community development as well as addressing societal challenges. While promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education includes both entrepreneurial...
A major development challenge is providing a strong rationale and academic argument for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship across the whole institution, across all subjects and for all levels of study. These are however the prerequisites for having an institution-wide entrepreneurial agenda. Institutions with fewer barriers and hierarchies...
The ultimate aim of an entrepreneurial HEI is to embed innovation and entrepreneurship into the organisational DNA so that they become part of the organisation´s culture and its values, policies, structures and practices. Once entrepreneurship has become a part of the organisational DNA, reflected in everyday practices and the ‘way things are done’...
For an institution to become more entrepreneurial and innovative There are barriers to overcome. These might be related to the intellectual or ideological beliefs of academic staff, resulting from misperceptions and myths about the meanings, values and purposes of entrepreneurship. The leadership challenge lies in engaging these viewpoints and...
Being entrepreneurial and innovation driven applies both to the organisation as a whole and to its constituting individuals. Organisational culture and values can tie the organisation and the individual together. For a broad acceptance of entrepreneurship and innovation from top management, senior levels of the institution to all other stakeholders...
Aalborg University has since its establishment invested heavily in creating strong linkages with local industry and with other institutions and actors in the innovation system. A particular innovative feature of entrepreneurship at Aalborg University is the emphasis on interdisciplinarity and creative problem solving in its teaching and learning...
Resource paper prepared by Ben Jongbloed (CHEPS, University of Twente) Introduction The University of Twente (UT), based in the east of the Netherlands, was established in the year 1961. It is a medium-sized university with a strong engineering core, next to a social sciences base. The UT is very much known for its entrepreneurial character and a...
Resource paper prepared by Ben Jongbloed (CHEPS, University of Twente) Introduction As part of our case study of the University of Twente (UT), this document focuses on the facilities and instruments in place to support the entrepreneurial potential of the university. The University of Twente is based in the region of Twente, in the east of the...
The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB), founded in 1968, is one of seven higher education institutions located in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. It is centred in the heart of Catalonia, one of Spain’s most dynamic and entrepreneurial regions. UAB is one of the top three universities in Spain. It is a...
The Rovira i Virgili University (URV) was founded in 1992. It is a public university serving southern Catalonia, a region with 800,000 inhabitants. The university was founded by the Catalan Parliament to unite existing higher education faculties and schools in the Tarragona area under a joint institutional umbrella. URV is accountable to the...