People are key to the success of the internationalisation of a higher education institution. They can stimulate new approaches to learning and in this way contribute to the modernisation of pedagogy and contribute to the organisation's international network by making personal contacts available. The attractiveness of an HEI for international and...
The international mobility of staff and students, including administrative staff and doctoral students, is an important practice for entrepreneurial HEIs. Mobility initiatives typically focus on teaching and research, in the case of staff, and on learning and practical experiences for students, though the format of mobility schemes can take a...
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...
Conventional academic faculty members, in general, have little or no practical experience of being entrepreneurs themselves, and thus lack expertise in starting-up and running an enterprise. Therefore, including experienced entrepreneurs and practitioners in the teaching of entrepreneurship education can be fruitful. Guest lecturers, life case...
Entrepreneurship education activities can have various intended learning outcomes. It is important that these match the teaching strategy. For example, entrepreneurial development objectives require more ‘learning by doing’ activities and place-based learning than traditional academic programmes. Learning objectives, teaching methods and students’...
Supporting entrepreneurial behaviour can be challenging, as it might not be fully compliant with the existing rules and regulations of the HEI. In the short term, flexibility is needed to accept entrepreneurial behaviour and to support it. In the long run, the HEI must foster an institutional environment that matches the entrepreneurial behaviour...
The objective of entrepreneurship education is the systematic and effective development of enterprising individuals, who are responsible towards society and the communities they live in. For the practical implementation of entrepreneurship education, however, this must be narrowed down into broad learning objectives and practical aims, such as: (i)...
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...
