Entrepreneurship and higher education / edited by Jonathan Potter.
Contributors: Potter, Jonathan; Local Economic and Employment Development (Program); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Series: Local economic and employment development (LEED); Education & skills; Local economic and employment development; Education and skills -- 2008, no. 18.
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; OECD Publishing; OCDE
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9789264044098
Subjects: Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching
Description: 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.
Notes: "LEED Programme"--P. [4] of cover.

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