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Yeoryios Stamboulis is Professor of "Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship" at the Department of Economics, University of Thessaly Greece. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience on innovation and entrepreneurship. He is currently teaching courses on Entrepreneurship, Technology Strategy, Innovation Management, Economics...

Vera de Ruiter is a senior manager at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, where she leads the Centre for Entrepreneurship and has played a key role in its development into the largest and one of the leading Centres for Entrepreneurship among Dutch universities of applied sciences. With extensive experience in entrepreneurship, innovation...

Sara Proença is a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Coimbra, where she has taught since 2003, and a researcher at CERNAS – Research Centre for Natural Resources, Environment and Society. She holds a PhD in Economics from ISEG – University of Lisbon. Her work focuses on academic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems...

Dr Marko Torkkeli is a Professor of Technology and Business Innovations at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland. His research interests and entrepreneurial actions focus on technology and innovation management, strategic entrepreneurship, growth venturing, and decision support systems. He has more than 25 years of experience of...

Professor Colette Henry is an academic manager with international teaching and research experience in Entrepreneurship Education, Gender and Entrepreneurship Policy. Her PhD explored the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and training, and she has published widely in this field. She specialises in new programme design and effectiveness...

Barbara Bradač Hojnik is a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia. She has more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship education and research. She teaches across bachelor’s, master’s and...

Dr. Andrea Kottmann is an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, where she works within the Knowledge, Transformation and Society section (KiTeS) of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences and the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS). Her research focuses on institutional change and innovation in higher...

By María José Herrero-Villa Abstract Within the YUFE (Young Universities for the Future of Europe) Alliance¹, ten universities used HEInnovate to assess the Alliance's innovation and entrepreneurial capacity to develop a shared Innovation Action Plan. Drawing on the perspectives of students, work package teams and institutional coordinators, the...

This case study examines how HOGENT, one of the largest Universities of Applied Sciences and Arts in Flanders (Belgium), built entrepreneurial capacity across the whole institution. The work drew on two things, used side by side. HEInnovate helped HOGENT read where it stood on entrepreneurship and provided a shared frame of reference for it. Design...

The KTSoftSkills Project, coordinated by the University of Bologna through an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership, addressed the need to strengthen soft and transversal competences among knowledge transfer professionals in higher education and research organisations. The initiative developed a structured training framework, self-assessment framework and...

Green HExagon is an international, primarily online pre-incubation programme for sustainable business ideas, run by university incubators in five European countries. Created within an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership, it works at the preincubation stage, where ideas are still too early for an incubator or accelerator. Over four months, teams move...

This case study updates the 2018 HEInnovate case study of the University of Kassel and examines the evolution of its entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge transfer ecosystem. Since 2018, the university has further strengthened its organisational capacity through the continued development of UniKasselTransfer and a portfolio of complementary...

The Community for Educational Innovation (CEI) invites motivated professionals to apply for the CEI Study Visit 2026-II, taking place on 3–4 November 2026 and hosted by the Polytechnic University of Viana do Castelo, Portugal. This immersive, fully funded visit will explore how lifelong learning can strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by...

Join us on October 8 from 3pm to 4pm CEST for an engaging webinar introducing HEInnovate, a comprehensive tool designed to help higher education institutions explore and strengthen their entrepreneurial and innovative potential. In this one-hour session, you will: Gain a clear understanding of HEInnovate and its eight key dimensions. Learn how...

📍 6–7 July 2026 | New Bulgarian University , Sofia, Bulgaria The first CEI Study Visit of 2026 brought together 14 higher education professionals from across Europe at New Bulgarian University (NBU) in Sofia for two days of knowledge exchange, peer learning and practical reflection on one of higher education's most pressing challenges: advancing...