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Spain

The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB), founded in 1968, is one of seven higher education institutions located in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. It is centred in the heart of Catalonia, one of Spain’s most dynamic and entrepreneurial regions. UAB is one of the top three universities in Spain. Within the...

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Germany

The Leuphana, University of Lüneburg, is a medium-sized university without the classical faculties that have a certain affinity with entrepreneurship. The principal approach “Humboldt and Schumpeter” was developed with the objective of creating links between the field of entrepreneurship (as part of the Faculty of Business and Economics) and, in...

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Croatia

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...

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Slovenia

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...

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United Kingdom

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...

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Slovakia

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...

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Austria

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...

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Poland

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...

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Portugal

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...

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Ireland

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.

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United Kingdom

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...