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Entrepreneurial Universities: Exploring the Academic and Innovative Dimensions of Entrepreneurship Higher Education
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Entrepreneurial Universities: Exploring the Academic and Innovative Dimensions of Entrepreneurship Higher Education
Current price: $179.99
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Entrepreneurial Universities: Exploring the Academic and Innovative Dimensions of Entrepreneurship Higher Education
Current price: $179.99
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Featuring initiatives from institutions around the world, the authors argue that the increasing importance of knowledge in the technical and social dimensions of today’s world provides greater relevance to the entrepreneurial university. In this context, universities transcend their traditional focus on teaching and basic research to carry out technology transfers, marketing ideas, and patent registrations, and incorporate spin-off companies that contribute to industrial innovations, economic growth, and job creation. In the teaching dimension, the entrepreneurial university represents a focus on programs which train students in the applications and most advanced practices in knowledge-driven fields.
The book addresses such questions as:
In reference to entrepreneurship education in its broadest sense, then, it corresponds to the framework of ideas and general features on which entrepreneurship is founded: in-depth knowledge of the projects or ventures which they wish to carry out, capacity to perceive the relevant characteristics of the environment, and the leadership and goal setting skills to achieve success.