Entrepreneurship and Higher Education [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Local Economic and Employment Development (Program)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
University of Essex.
Potter, Jonathan.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2008.
Stimulating innovative and growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a key economic and societal challenge to which universities and colleges have much to contribute. This book examines the role that higher education institutions are currently playing through teaching entrepreneurship and transferring knowledge and innovation to enterprises and discusses how they should develop this role in the future. The key issues, approaches and trends are analysed and compared across a range of countries, from the experiences of the most entrepreneurial universities in North America to advanced European models and emerging practices in Central and Eastern Europe. It is clear that entrepreneurship engagement is a rapidly expanding and evolving aspect of higher education that requires proper support and development. The book stresses the need to expand existing entrepreneurship efforts and introduce more creative and effective approaches, building on the best practices highlighted from around the world. It will provide inspiration for those in higher education seeking to expand and improve their entrepreneurship teaching and knowledge-transfer activities, and for policy makers who wish to provide appropriate support initiatives and frameworks.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Entrepreneurship and Higher Education: Future Policy Directions -- Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms in the European Transition Economies -- Technology Commercialisation and Universities in Canada -- Promoting Innovation in Slovenia Through Knowledge Transfer to SMEs -- University Knowledge Transfer and the Role of Academic -- Higher Education, Knowledge Transfer Mechanisms and the Promotion of SME Innovation -- Executive Summary -- Developments in the Teaching of Entrepreneurship in European Transition Economies -- Entrepreneurship Education in the United States -- Entrepreneurship Education in an Age of Chaos, Complexity and Disruptive Change -- Entrepreneurship Education in Europe -- Towards an Analytical Framework for Policy Development -- Higher Education's Role in Entrepreneurship and Economic Development -- Benchmarking Entrepreneurship Education across US, Canadian and Danish Universities -- Entrepreneurship Education for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
Stimulating innovative and growth-oriented entrepreneurship is a key economic and societal challenge to which universities and colleges have much to contribute. This book examines the role that higher education institutions are currently playing through teaching entrepreneurship and transferring knowledge and innovation to enterprises and discusses how they should develop this role in the future. The key issues, approaches and trends are analysed and compared across a range of countries, from the experiences of the most entrepreneurial universities in North America to advanced European models and emerging practices in Central and Eastern Europe. It is clear that entrepreneurship engagement is a rapidly expanding and evolving aspect of higher education that requires proper support and development. The book stresses the need to expand existing entrepreneurship efforts and introduce more creative and effective approaches, building on the best practices highlighted from around the world. It will provide inspiration for those in higher education seeking to expand and improve their entrepreneurship teaching and knowledge-transfer activities, and for policy makers who wish to provide appropriate support initiatives and frameworks.
Entrepreneurship
Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)