Dr Christophe Haunold leads the central office for partnerships, knowledge, and technology transfer at the University of Luxembourg. He is the immediate past president of ASTP, the foremost pan-European association for Knowledge Transfer. Until May 2020, Christophe served as the Director of the Tech Transfer Office (TTO) at the Institut National...

Charlotte Norrman currently serves as a senior associate professor at the Department of Management and Engineering at Linköping University (LiU). She began her career in entrepreneurship working at supporting organisations such as a chamber of commerce and a science park. She obtained her PhD in 2008, focusing her research on entrepreneurship...

Dr. Mona Roman is a Research Director at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland and a Lead Coordinator for U!REKA European University Alliance with 30 partners. She received her DSc. in Industrial Engineering and Management at Aalto University (2009). Over the years, she has been teaching market research, strategy...

Professor Dr. Bernhard Kölmel is an expert in technology, digital transformation, and innovation management, focusing on converging technologies like cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). His career blends extensive academic work with practical experience in industry, consulting, and...

Ana-Cristina Nicolescu is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at West University of Timișoara, Romania, responsible for quality assurance, institutional accreditations, certifications, and rankings, as well as a Full Professor at the same faculty. With a habilitation in Finance, her research focuses on Corporate...

On 10 April 2025, HEInnovate hosted an interactive information session, bringing together participants from across Europe and beyond to explore how higher education institutions can enhance their entrepreneurial and innovation capacities using the HEInnovate self-assessment tool. The session covered the eight dimensions of the tool, introduced key...

📅 Date: 23 April 2025 🕒 Time: 15:30–17:00 CET This webinar is part of the Community for Educational Innovation (CEI) , which the European Commission created to bring together policymakers, practitioners, and members of the business sector to promote innovation in education at all levels. It is part of the first Thematic Strand of CEI, dedicated to...

About the webinar The focus of this webinar is to provide practical insights on HEInnovate, which is a self-assessment tool designed specifically for higher education institutions to explore and enhance their entrepreneurial and innovative potential. During this one-hour webinar, we will explore: how to use the self-assessment tool with its 8...

The European Bioeconomy University (EBU) is an alliance of eight higher education institutions (HEIs) with a dedicated focus on the bioeconomy. The institutions are from different European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. The bioeconomy is that part of the economy that is concerned with the...

Business incubators have long been integral to higher education, fostering strong connections between universities and regional business sectors. This comparative case study, part of the HEInnovate initiative, explores the establishment and operation of incubators to support entrepreneurs and innovators in collaboration with higher education...

The University of Antwerp (UAntwerp) has entrepreneurship as an explicit educational priority. It is a member of the Young Universities for the Future of Europe European University Alliance (YUFE). The University sees an urgent need to reform doctoral education to deliver more entrepreneurial graduates equipped with open science competences and to...

Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences (HHN) is a relatively young higher education institution in one of Germany's economically most dynamic regions. Entrepreneurship, responsible entrepreneurship, in particular, is one of HHN’s strategic objectives. In 2017, HHN founded Startklar, a central coordination unit with the mission to strengthen...

Lund University (LU) is located close to a science park in a region with numerous incubators and start-ups in a rather densely populated area. The University uses its strategic location as a source of competitive advantage by strongly collaborating with local established companies, start-ups, student organisations, support services and incubators...

Abstract: Taking inspiration from the Train the Trainers workshop, the EKA University of Applied Sciences (EKA) in Latvia is disseminating HEInnovate’s impact both across the university and across partner universities by holding workshops that introduce participants to the HEInnovate self-assessment and help them form action plans to use at their...

Abstract: The Faculty of Economics and Business at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (UNIOS) in Croatia has a history of engaging with HEInnovate—four of the staff have attended the Train the Trainers workshop, and the staff has distributed the HEInnovate self-assessment amongst the faculty, and some lecturers in the Faculty have...