This case shows how the creation of a new centre can be used as a focus for knowledge exchange, innovation and enterprise and be successfully integrated into the working of an established University. The Munich University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) was founded in 1971. It hosts 18 000 students, 475 professors, 750 contracted lecturers and 745...
The objective of entrepreneurship education (EE) at the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek (SUO), Croatia, is to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and related skills. The curriculum consists of an undergraduate, graduate, a postgraduate and a doctoral programme in entrepreneurship. Key to programme development were the commitment and the personal...
The Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana (FELU) offers courses on undergraduate, graduate and MBA level in entrepreneurship education (EE), including specialisations in entrepreneurship. In 2006, FELU introduced the Design Thinking (DT) approach to EE. DT is a human-centred, action-oriented and iterative problemsolving and idea...
The main focus in the case study of the University of Cambridge (UC) is set on its Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL). CfEL’s mission is to spread the spirit of enterprise and this mission is deeply embedded in its approach to entrepreneurship education. CfEL offers a broad variety of innovative educational programmes, such as the...
The Technical University of Kosice (TUKE), Slovakia, is located in Kosice, the main city in Eastern Slovakia and the European Capital of Culture 2013. TUKE is a fully-fledged university with a strong technical tradition. It offers curricular entrepreneurship education mainly through its Faculty of Economics, in particular courses in entrepreneurial...
The main hub for entrepreneurship education at Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Upper-Austria, is the university’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and Organisational Development (IUG). Entrepreneurship teaching is delivered by the IUG team and an established network of external lecturers. The institute’s landmark approach to delivering...
Kozminski University (KU) is a Polish private business and law school established in 1993. It has 5,300 students and a leading position in management education in Poland as well as Central and Eastern Europe. KU offers curricular entrepreneurship education for Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees. Most offers are for BA students in Management with a...
This case looks at how the Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP) used the HEInnovate tool as a platform for analysis and a stimulus for strategic change. This case examines the positioning of entrepreneurship at IPP and how the use of the HEInnovate dimensions to review institutional performance and inform the creation of a new strategy...
This case study describes the set-up and impact of ACE (Accelerating Campus Entrepreneurship), an Irish Government funded initiative which was created to embed entrepreneurship within the Irish HEI curriculum specifically to ‘create the entrepreneurial graduate’ for graduates of non-business disciplines.
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) was established, on 11 March, 2008 by the European Parliament and the European Council. Its aim is to become a flagship for excellence in European innovation. EIT is the first European initiative to fully integrate the three sides of the ‘Knowledge Triangle’ (higher education, research...
