Entrepreneurship and Higher Education

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.
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Higher Education's Role in Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
This chapter provides an overview of the type of role that higher education plays in promoting entrepreneurship in the economy. The authors place this role within the context of social and economic change and a growing recognition of the value of entrepreneurship in influencing and absorbing the outcomes of such change. Equating entrepreneurship with new venture creation, the authors reflect on the different ways knowledge is transferred, particularly through education and training offered by higher education institutions.
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