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Florida State University’s initiative to recruit, train, and retain new education professionals addresses the education shortage in Florida and beyond
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23 Jan 2024

Internal Support StructuresEducation
Innov8x – the New Frontier in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education
Redefining how entrepreneurship and innovation are taught in HEIs
By Shannon Skinner
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27 Dec 2023

Third Mission ActivitiesContinuous ImprovementImpact
Unleashing the Power and Talents of Neurodiversity
Utilizing the talents of neurodivergent individuals for the collective benefit of those who are neurodivergent, their families, industry, and the community.
By Professor Sonya Girdler, Dr. Ben Milbourn, Professor Tele Tan
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27 Nov 2023

Institutional CommitmentContinuous Improvement
Building a Purpose-Driven, High-Performing Culture at a Higher Education Institution
Charting a Course for Educational Excellence
By Prof. Dr Abdul Jalil Ghazali
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07 Nov 2023

Education
Sage Doll Avatars: Making Education MORE Engaging and Effective
Sage Doll Avatars Change the World of Education
By Timothy Bellavia
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23 Oct 2023

Institutional CommitmentCulture
Entrepreneurship for the Real World at Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Pioneering Real-World Entrepreneurship for a Decade and Beyond
By Professor Rowena Barrett, Glen Murphy
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05 Oct 2023

Institutional CommitmentThird Mission ActivitiesImpact
A recipe for success: Everyone has to be in it to win it
Universities contain all the ingredients for entrepreneurship ecosystems to flourish
By Laura-Jane Silverman
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14 Sep 2023

Institutional CommitmentInfluence within the EcosystemImpact
Driving Sustainability: How Flinders University’s Virtual Power Plant Transforms Campus Fleet and Energy
Flinders University harnesses vehicle-to-grid technology (V2G), setting a gold standard in campus sustainability and innovation
By William Van Ausdal
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21 Aug 2023

EducationImpact
Student Engagement for Sustainable Development
The Case of North-West University's Green Team
By Emmanuel Adu Ohene
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21 Jul 2023

Third Mission ActivitiesInfluence within the Ecosystem
Bridging Gaps in Meeting Societal Needs
Exploring the University’s Third Mission and the Potential of Social Entrepreneurship in a Rapidly Changing Society
By Harshitha Polathula, Federica Casaccio
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09 Jun 2023

Institutional CommitmentFinancial PlanningCulture
Talento Magdalena
A Social Innovation for Accessing Higher Education in Colombia
By Dr. Pablo Vera Salazar
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25 May 2023

Institutional CommitmentCulture
University as an active agent of Change: building a culture of responsibility
The importance of recognizing the University's responsibilities towards its own student body and society at large. Examples from practice in India.
By Dr. Asim Siddiqui
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14 Apr 2023

Institutional CommitmentContinuous Improvement
Forty Years of Entrepreneurship at UWTSD
The making of an entrepreneurial University
By David A. Kirby, Kathryn Penaluna
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14 Mar 2023

Institutional CommitmentEducation
Entrepreneurial Universities: The Alignment of the Teaching and Learning practices
In this article, we explore the adjustments needed in a university on its path to achieving its third mission, specifically in terms of teaching and learning by using the concept of “constructive alignment”.
By Dr. Lina Landinez
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13 Feb 2023

EducationResearch
Grand Designs: Creating a new mindset for entrepreneurial education
Entrepreneurial education needs a rethink. Here we talk about educational needs in a brave new world
By Kathryn Cormican
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17 Jan 2023

CultureInternal Support StructuresService AlignmentEducationContinuous Improvement
Drivers and Enablers: Learning from Creative Thinking Experts
The notion of “learning to be creative” from design education is relatively new in business and entrepreneurial education, so what can we learn?
By Kathryn Penaluna
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12 Dec 2022

EducationResearchThird Mission ActivitiesContinuous ImprovementInfluence within the EcosystemImpact
Entrepreneurial education in Africa: the E4Impact case
In the territory, for the territory: E4Impact and the importance of on-the-ground support for African entrepreneurship development
By Mario Molteni
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14 Nov 2022

Institutional CommitmentFinancial PlanningLeadership
Thinking without a box: Post-COVID entrepreneurial recruiting
In the post-COVID world of higher education, international deans and recruiters are challenged to create innovative vision plans and recruiting strategies. This article suggests several entrepreneurial ways to connect students with colleges and universities in the post-Covid era.
By Marguerite J. Dennis
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13 Oct 2022

Third Mission Activities
Saving the Planet with Entrepreneurship
The Need for Harmony
By David A. Kirby
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21 Jul 2022

Education
In a New Technological Environment: Quality Assurance Systems for Higher Education in Latin America
We live in a world where uncertainty prevails, and HEIs are no strangers to it. Therefore, it is crucial to look at rapid technological development and its impact on business and society - including a paradigm shift - and how HEIs in Latin America are trying to move forward in bridging the digital divide. In this line, developing quality assurance systems for various institutions and programs that train future entrepreneurs is relevant.
By Carlos Olivares
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28 Apr 2022

EducationImpact
Lessons from the World Café: reflections on entrepreneurship education effectiveness
Entrepreneurship education effectiveness means different things to different people. How can we best capture the outcomes of university-based entrepreneurship education?
By Dr. Carolin Decker-Lange
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01 Apr 2022

Influence within the EcosystemImpact
SDGs and the Scientific Community's Commitment: How to Collaborate?
The scientific community is one of the main stakeholders responsible for legitimizing, implementing and achieving the SDGs. What are the challenges to acting on these responsibilities?
By Thais Dibbern
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14 Mar 2022

Influence within the EcosystemImpact
HEI Global Engagement: From ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’ to Concrete Measures
Global engagement has become a buzz word in HE. But is it just hot air? How does a truly globally engaged university behave?
By Dr. Vicky Lewis
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02 Mar 2022

Education
Creator Economy: Imperatives and Challenges for Higher Education
Content creation has moved from the margins to the mainstream economy with a variety of monetisation models. What are the imperatives, impacts, and challenges of the creator economy on higher education?
By Salil Sahadevan
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25 Feb 2022

Institutional CommitmentLeadership
Embedding Sustainability in Academia: Deans as Change Makers
Deans have a unique role in driving sustainability transformations at universities. By linking top-down and bottom-up efforts, they serve both as connecting pins and amplifiers – as change-makers.
By Ben Jongbloed, Anete Veidemane
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03 Feb 2022

CultureInfluence within the Ecosystem
Did you hear me? Framework for a listening culture in the engaged university
The Insight Discovery Matrix for an engaged university. It implements and drives momentum for deep listening and entrepreneurial behaviour.
By Antonio Dottore
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28 Oct 2021

EducationThird Mission Activities
Envisioning International Terrain of Digitalization in Higher Education
Institutions of higher education aim to cultivate digital culture beyond campus and accelerate innovation in addition to developing intercultural competence through collaborations. Highlighting the internationalization of online initiatives, the surge of joint ventures charts a forward-looking blueprint of international education.
By Chiungfen Chen, Prof. Hsiao-Wei Yuan
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01 Jun 2021

Continuous Improvement
Trust, but Verify the Words: The Importance of Site Visits as Part of an External Academic Accreditation
Some accreditation agencies have as their customary practice the conduct of site visits, while others only do so when they have questions and/or to seek clarification about a certain matter. As someone who has experience with both practices as well as from the viewpoint of being an academic accreditor and having been accredited, the former practice serves all involved parties best.
By Nita Temmerman
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24 May 2021

Institutional CommitmentImpact
Combining Technology and Culture – Greek Higher Education Goes International
In a time of global upheaval, Greece has decided to internationalise its higher education to keep pace with the rapidly changing international academic landscape. Combining technology and classics, the Greek Internationalisation Plan places a strong focus on international cooperation while rethinking higher education in terms of entrepreneurship and innovation.
By Theodoros Papaioannou
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10 May 2021

Continuous Improvement
Net Loss – Why Are We Seeing Exclusionary Graduate Hiring Networks Replicated Online?
Handshake's latest report, Netpotism, provides research suggesting that rather than acting as a true social accelerant, in many cases, the impact of the pandemic has been to move existing systems of entrenched privilege online. This, along with the digital divide affecting interviews, presents significant issues for those who are less well-off and well connected.
By Clare Adams
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03 May 2021

Institutional CommitmentContinuous Improvement
Taking a Strategic Approach to Tackling Racial Inequality in UK Universities
Despite recent efforts, UK universities are still lagging in their response to racial inequality. A holistic institutional strategy backed by strong leadership commitment and resources is required. Critically, those who experience racial discrimination should be at the core of any anti-racism policy.
By Amatey Doku
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19 Apr 2021

Institutional CommitmentShared Goals
Embracing the Sustainable Development Goals and Forging a Way Forward
Higher education is only called out in two of the 169 SDG targets; however, there are more than 60 targets in which it plays a pivotal role. Higher education leaders are urged to undertake a holistic evaluation of how they propose to address the SDGs and map out a way forward, whilst recognising that there are many limitations and barriers.
By Angel Calderon
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12 Apr 2021

EducationThird Mission Activities
Deep Tech and the Role of Universities
Deep tech has exploded in interest across policy, business and investor circles in just the last two years due to these technologies’ potential to address the grand challenges facing society. However, commercializing deep tech is challenging, requiring talent with a holistic understanding of science and business. Universities play an important role in creating the pipeline of students prepared to build the future of deep tech.
By Angelo Romasanta
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06 Apr 2021

Financial PlanningThird Mission Activities
Shopping for Degrees
With the continuing interest of competition regulators in the work of universities and the never-ending debate about whether university students should or should not be thought of as consumers, it is always entertaining to see how shopping and studying can indeed overlap. Putting students as consumers in the centre of the higher education landscape is now coming to pass in perhaps unexpected ways.
By Paul Greatrix
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31 Mar 2021

Shared GoalsImpact
European Higher Education 2030: Scenarios for the European Universities Initiative
The next generation of European higher education internationalisation may be defined by the European Universities Initiative. Three scenarios provide insight into what that future may look like.
By Jessica D. Schüller
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25 Mar 2021

Service AlignmentThird Mission Activities
French President Makes Mentoring a State Priority: What’s the Role of Mentoring Organisations and Universities?
The Collectif Mentorat, an organisation bringing together the main mentoring actors in France, has been entitled to the implementation of a major mentoring plan in the country as a solution to the educational and health crises.
By Christophe Paris
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16 Mar 2021

Internal Support StructuresThird Mission Activities
COVID-19 Highlights the Role of the Entrepreneurial University in India
India’s entrepreneurial universities have collaborated with the government, industries and stakeholders to shape an effective response to COVID-19. Their success highlights the fact that university-industry strategic partnerships can flourish in emerging and developing economies in times of crises.
By Samrat Ray
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01 Mar 2021

Shared GoalsThird Mission Activities
University – Industry Collaborations: Gaining Impact and Driving Valuable Outcomes
There is no doubt that employers rely on higher education providers to deliver qualified and skilled employees. It is also true that universities rely on industry to support the making of a more skilled and entrepreneurial minded workforce. For the best fit to occur between input and output (graduates), the two parties should be clearly and regularly communicating their expectations with each other.
By Nita Temmerman
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10 Feb 2021

Shared GoalsResearchContinuous Improvement
Rethinking and Reinforcing Support for India’s University Researchers in the Pandemic and Beyond
Doctoral students and young researchers from Dehli’s universities share their stories of dealing with the new challenges and limitations impacting their research work in the pandemic. Their experiences reveal increased pressures, anxiety and a lack of support from their institutions. Tackling this problem will require universities to become more innovative, entrepreneurial and engaged with key stakeholders.
By Monika Maini
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01 Feb 2021

EducationImpact
Lessons from an Academic Mountaineer: Exploring the Terrain and Getting a Grip on Competency-Based Online Education
The pandemic has unearthed latent issues of access, equity, and attainment of valuable higher educational credentials. Confronted with these challenges, universities should explore the competency-based online model: at WGU it has been effective in transforming the traditional relationships among students, faculty, the institution, and the market.
By Linda A. Wendling
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20 Jan 2021

EducationImpact
Flexible Pathways for “Getting Out of Higher Education” Will Be Even More Important in the Post-COVID Era
Higher education institutions and the labour market can work together on offering work-based learning and flexible completion opportunities to tackle growing unemployment rates in the post-COVID era.
By Uliana Furiv, Michaela Martin
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14 Jan 2021

Continuous Improvement
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education in a Post-COVID-19 World
Higher education officials need to reimagine what colleges and universities will “look like” after the confusion of the pandemic passes, and why the times require, and support, innovation and entrepreneurship to guide higher education in the future.
By Marguerite J. Dennis
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28 Dec 2020

Institutional CommitmentContinuous Improvement
The Risk of Returning to “The Good Old Days” for Universities Post-COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken universities in many profound ways and will likely continue to affect higher education after the pandemic subsides. In this context, little is being made on how a yearning for normality may eschew innovations in the post-pandemic periods as universities may feel increasingly compelled to revert to old practices. Driving innovations forward will present a huge challenge for university leadership.
By Amatey Doku
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27 Nov 2020

Third Mission ActivitiesContinuous Improvement
Tailoring University Incubation Programmes Based on the Needs of Refugees
A revision of refugee entrepreneurship programmes in higher education institutions can increase refugee resilience and contribute to better adaptation to new communities.
By Aysuhan Tuba Saral
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03 Oct 2020

Shared GoalsLeadership
Constructing Entrepreneurial Universities in Africa Presents Unique Opportunities and Challenges
Africa has been noted for its entrepreneurship culture and potential. Still the lack of clarity of the concept and a weak policy environment are inhibiting a total embrace by higher education institutions on the continent
By Ransford Bekoe
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24 Sep 2020

Shared GoalsLeadership
Entrepreneurial Leadership Failure and Its Impact on Student Entrepreneurial Spirit
Entrepreneurship is often overlooked by many universities. How failure in entrepreneurial leadership impacts student entrepreneurial spirit by examining selected universities in the MENA region?
By Ibrahim M. Karkouti
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20 Sep 2020

Leadership
Leadership for the Engaged University: Nurturing Social Capital to Leverage Organisational Knowledge
For the engaged university to thrive requires a leadership model that fosters a culture of innovation-driven thinking, creation, and community engagement by its members.
By Antonio Dottore
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17 Sep 2020

Leadership
Leading Entrepreneurship at a University During Turbulent Times
Discover how in this age of uncertainty organisational development theory has been leveraged to lead the award-winning team at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
By Wendy Kerr
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15 Sep 2020

Education
Entrepreneurship Education and ADHD: Is It Time to Support Right-Brain Thinkers?
In recent years increased attention has been paid to the link between the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Entrepreneurship. Here, Professor David A. Kirby considers the implications for Entrepreneurship Education based on early research he undertook at the University of Surrey.
By David A. Kirby
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07 Sep 2020

Institutional CommitmentShared GoalsInternal Support Structures
Carrying the Third Mission Weight Requires Many Shoulders: Can Austria Learn from the German Approach?
It takes a village to bring up a child, and an all-institutional effort to encourage third mission. Austria’s approach to promoting universities ‘roles beyond education and research has limitation on several levels. Can Germany’s more centralised government-backed model help? Here, we outline why the establishment of stand-alone transfer centers are just a drop in the ocean.
By Dr. Martina Gaisch, Daniela Nömeyer
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03 Sep 2020

Continuous ImprovementImpact
From Assessing Impact to Making an Impact
Innovation scholars assessing impact in research consortia can make a wider impact to their universities, scientific community and society at large.
By Angelo Romasanta
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31 Aug 2020

Impact
Can Indian Universities Tackle Challenges to Deliver Social Impact?
Indian universities that aim at producing social impact will face various challenges in funding, student expectations, student admission, academics perception, and university governance. Understanding these challenges is important before any viable strategy can be developed and implemented.
By V. Santhakumar
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18 Aug 2020

Education
Prejudice-Driven Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education Limit its Impacts
Entrepreneurial education is in trend and fashion, yet many implementation challenges it faces stem from biases and misconceptions of educators and society. Admitting this fact opens a way to solutions.
By Nikolai Shmelev
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15 Aug 2020

Shared GoalsThird Mission Activities
Entrepreneurial University and COVID-19: Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Transformation?
Universities will change as a result of the Coronavirus, but how? And how will the pandemic impact on their Third Mission and enterprise activities?
By David A. Kirby
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10 Aug 2020

Third Mission ActivitiesImpact
Why Do Most University Impact Studies Fail to Adequately Assess Universities’ Engagement with Communities?
The traditional ‘big number’ approach to measuring economic impact is out of step with what places need from their universities. As a result, improvements in engagement are difficult to analyse, plan and implement.
By James Ransom
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06 Aug 2020

Institutional Commitment
Universities - Entrepreneurial and Sustainable. Best of Both Worlds?
As universities seek to become both entrepreneurial and sustainable, they will redefine their role as smart actors in entrepreneurial ecosystems.
By Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Segers