An entrepreneurial and innovative HEI exploits the opportunities of its digital capacity for inclusive and sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship through communication, collaboration and networking. Digital transformation creates possibilities for a much wider impact on the HEI, its staff, students and the stakeholder community. Therefore, an...

Open educational resources, open science and open data practices have the ability to improve the effectiveness, quality and productivity of entrepreneurial and innovative education and research systems. Through open educational resources, students can access content anytime, anywhere and engage with enhanced and relevant material to support their...

Greater engagement with digital technology provides opportunities for innovative curriculum design and delivery, new pedagogies, learning processes and assessment methods. This requires the associated development of digital competence and skills in staff and students. Digital technology in entrepreneurial teaching, learning and assessment has a...

An HEI should integrate the design and organisation of its digital infrastructure to support innovation and entrepreneurship across all its activities. This includes for example the integration of its learning technologies and platforms, research and administrative systems, and supporting ICT services. All digital infrastructure needs to be managed...

Digital tools and practices are drivers of innovation and entrepreneurship. An HEI should understand, explore, and promote new ways of working based on digital-first thinking. A well-functioning digital culture balances top-down leadership with bottom-up innovation. This includes a coherent and shared strategy and action plan, allocating resources...

The University of Kassel is a public higher education institution located in the city of Kassel in the state of Hesse in the centre of Germany. It was founded in 1971 with the ambition to drive innovative concepts for practice-oriented teaching and learning as well as interdisciplinary work. As of the winter semester 2016/17, the University has 25...

Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a critical role in our societies. They provide the high-level skills needed for the modern economy, assist talented young people to transition into employment, generate and disseminate knowledge and innovation, and work together with business, government and civil society to promote economic and social...

The Gdansk University of Technology2 (GUT) was established in 1945 in Gdansk; it succeeded the technical university founded in 1904.3 Gdansk is a port city in northern Poland on the Baltic Sea coast and one of the largest business, economic, cultural and scientific centres in Poland. Named in honour of the 17th and 18th century scientists who lived...

The ‘Entrepreneurial Teaching and Learning’ case study is about the co-operation between the University, business entities, state authorities and local self-government for developing learning activities that are aimed at developing an entrepreneurial mindset and skills. Co-operation can take the form of different partnership models, and can cover...

European higher education systems increasingly have to change the way they operate due to the revolution in information and communication technologies, the financial crisis, global competition and pressure on budgets. One of the most significant changes in response to these challenges has been the development, both in concept and practice, of the...

Internationalisation of a higher education institution covers a very broad range of activities. Internationalisation can influence all aspects of a HEI, from the design and delivery of education, to research activities and relationships with the external environment, to knowledge exchange. Internationalisation should be understood as a catalyst and...

This case study provide insights on how two of the oldest universities in Hungary have put entrepreneurship and innovation at the core of their strategy and how they prepare and support their future entrepreneurs. The case study starts with a brief overview on the University of Debrecen followed by a short introduction on Semmelweis University and...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can act as gatekeepers to the knowledge and technology emerging from ongoing research, and have a significant role in its diffusion. To effectively disseminate such research requires enterprising individuals and ad-hoc mechanisms that enable transfer, application and exchange of knowledge and technology with the...

The University of Utrecht, founded in 1636, has taken concrete actions to change internal systems, and research approach and increase its societal impact. These actions have changed and rationalised the University’s approach to research in four broad themes - Dynamics of Youth, Institutions for Open Societies, Life Sciences, Sustainability - that...