Incentives and rewards for staff, who actively support the higher education institution in advancing its entrepreneurial agenda are crucial for raising involvement and commitment. Incentives and rewards should be available at an individual level as well as for faculties/departments. Examples include: · Development sabbaticals; · Rewards beyond...

An international or global perspective is a key characteristic of an entrepreneurial and innovative HEI. Most institutions have internationalisation strategies, or internationalisation is reflected in their overarching strategy. An entrepreneurial and innovative HEI will harmonise its approach to global, societal and ecological challenges with its...

Staff are a higher education institution's key resource in advancing the entrepreneurial and innovative agenda. Many areas of the entrepreneurial and innovative agenda – for example entrepreneurship education, knowledge exchange, measuring impact – are fast moving and require new skills and new knowledge to be acquired, shared and developed within...

Higher education institutions can build and foster an entrepreneurial culture by recruiting and engaging staff that have strong entrepreneurial backgrounds. This can bring in important human resources (knowledge, skills), as well as financial and social resources (access to networks), which are typically not available inside a higher education...

All internal and external stakeholders have a role in supporting an HEI’s entrepreneurial and innovative agenda. An entrepreneurial and innovative HEI understands the value of engaging with multiple external stakeholders to establish synergies. Therefore, it promotes a culture of collaboration within the HEI to build synergies with its...

Becoming an entrepreneurial and innovative HEI is an incremental and long-term organisational development project, which requires the development of a supportive institutional culture combined with a sustainable and diverse financial base. The ultimate aim of an entrepreneurial HEI is to embed innovation and entrepreneurship into the organisation...

An innovative HEI should integrate and assimilate the knowledge generated through its activities for extending its entrepreneurial agenda. Linking research and education with industry and local communities can lead to the co-creation of knowledge, for example through the involvement of external partners in teaching and research activities. The...

Knowledge intensive structures surrounding an HEI provide opportunities to exchange knowledge and ideas and promote a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. These include incubators, science parks and other initiatives. Many knowledge intensive structures, such as incubators and science parks, may be physically close to HEIs, but proximity per se...

An entrepreneurial and innovative HEI sees the value of engaging with local, regional, national strategy development and implementation as a key stakeholder in local, regional and national socio-economic development. They are often one of the major employers in a locality and their existence will impact on the local economy and social wellbeing...

Effective collaboration and enhanced synergies with the ecosystem - at local, regional and national levels are crucial for an entrepreneurial and innovative HEI, as it understands the value of engaging with multiple stakeholders to establish synergies. Therefore, it supports innovation to be aligned with the local, national and global challenges...

The internationalisation of higher education is both a response to and an enhancer of globalisation. Given their unique position as global centres of learning and research, and their key role in developing the leaders of the future, the internationalised entrepreneurial higher education institution, has a pivotal role to play in addressing the...

Transnational cooperation across an institution’s education and research activities deliveries a broad range of activities, especially if the HEI has a policy in place to mainstream innovative practices and ideas developed in alliances and projects in the whole institution. Strategic research partnerships with European HEIs provide a means to...

Internationalisation can, especially when incorporated into the HEI’s strategy, offer students, staff and the organisation several benefits. It can advance strategic thinking leading to innovation, offer advantages in modernising pedagogy, encourage collaboration between students and staff, stimulate new approaches to learning, and new research...

European and international mobility of staff and students, including administrative staff and doctoral students, is an important practice for entrepreneurial HEIs. These opportunities are well understood to bring about positive outcomes to all stakeholders involved, and to maximise the benefits delivered entrepreneurial and innovative higher...

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...