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...
External stakeholders are an important source of expertise that can be used in the design and delivery of entrepreneurial teaching and learning. Regular engagement with external stakeholders is key in addressing future skills needs and addressing societal challenges. Guest lecturers, life case studies and interviews are some of the frequently used...
An entrepreneurial learning experience provides opportunities to develop important skills and competences. These are essential for both graduate entrepreneurs as well as entrepreneurial graduates entering employment. An HEI that values entrepreneurial learning commits to regular review, validation, the updating of course content and learning...
Extracurricular learning opportunities are an important complementary part of entrepreneurship teaching and learning provision. An entrepreneurial and innovative HEI should offer a range of informal learning opportunities to students to inspire individuals to act entrepreneurially. Supporting entrepreneurial behaviour can be challenging, as it...
Innovation and diversity in the HEI's approach to teaching and learning (including flexible learning pathways) should accompany the development of the entrepreneurial mindset and competences across all departments and programmes. This can be achieved through: Offering tailored entrepreneurship courses across all subject areas and levels of study...