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What are the common challenges in entrepreneurship education and how to address them. Three case studies from the US, Mexico and Finland with different approaches to building entrepreneurship capabilities: McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship is a hub of entrepreneurship within the University of Arizona providing education, research and technical support to the students, faculty and wider community. Monterrey Tech (Itesm) is the leading private university in Mexico that was established by business leaders in 1940s and today integrates entrepreneurship in all its activities supporting hitech industry as well as social entrepreneurship. Team Academy is a 3-year entrepreneurship programme that was developed in a small Finnish town in Jyvaskyla to address the rising youth unemployment. There are no classes, not teachers, no simulations.
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Educating
Entrepreneurship
Educators Coneeect is an international network of universities that offers training courses for academic entrepreneurship teachers to improve the Entrepreneurship Education across Europe.
www.coneeect.eu
This material has been produced for the Coneeect program. The content is copyright of the author. All rights reserved. Duplication and distribution of original documentation is permitted. Any changes to the original are prohibited. This copyright message shall not be removed.
Jaana PUUKKA Strategy Consultant, Founder & President of Innovation Engage, former OECD analyst
Boosting Entrepreneurial Universities: lessons from international reviews22 July 2013
Boosting entrepreneurial UNIVERSITIES: lessons from international reviewscontent
1. How can universities support regional growth and entrepreneurship?
2. What are the constraints and barriers?3. Three approaches to entrepreneurship
educationThree cases and the Reality
4. What are the common issues in education education?
5. Where are the gaps? And how to address them?
Where does the evidence come from?
[email protected] courtesy to the OECD
2005 - 2007 2010 - 2012
2008 - 2011 Kazan 2007
Between 2005 and 2013 OECD reviewed the role and impact of Higher Education in 35 cities and regions in 25 countries
How were the reviews conducted?
Self-evaluation / background report owned by the Regional Steering Committee
Review visit by international experts
Review Report tailored for the city/region
Dissemination of outcomes
[email protected] courtesy to the oecd
What is university’s role in regional growth & entrepreneurship?
University
Skills
Innovation
Society at large
Capacity building
Partnerships
Context
Global, National and Local Context
Wroclaw, PL• Location and first mover advantage• City investment in knowledge-based
economy• HE hub
Context
• Ageing, uneven development• Traditional HE sector• Lack of focus on equity & relevance
Challenges
• REVISIT the HE management• DEVELOP a robust evidence base • ENHANCE HE collaboration• INTEGRATE entrepreneurship, LLL,
internships in all programmes
What next
City of Wroclaw wants to mobilise HE system to build a knowledge & cultural
hub in central Europe
Victoria, Australia
The tertiary education system needs to be mobilised to contribute to more concretely to Victoria’s “healthy, sustainable and productive future.”
• Robust economy• Diverse TE sector and int’l
education hub: strongest export worth AUD 5 billion
• Investments in Science & Tech infrastructure
Context
• Rapid population growth, ageing• Impacts of global warming• Low skills & skills shortages• Dependence on int’l students
Challenges
• WIDEN access to TE, increase attainment levels
• BROADEN innovation concept, support SMEs & BOOST entrepreneurship
• ENCOURAGE TE collaboration
What next?
Barriers to engagement: results from OECD review
National Sub-national Institutional /HEI-level
Uncoordinated HE, STI and regional policy
Fragmented regional governance, weak leadership
Lack of management capacity and entrepreneurial culture
Limits to HEIs’ autonomy and/or suboptimal accountability schemes
Intra-regional & inter-institutional competition
Tensions between regional engagement & pursuit for world class excellence
Limited incentives to HEIs Mutual exclusion of HEIs/regions from strategy development & implementation
Lack of incentives to individuals
Create an entrepreneurial HUB: McGuire Center for entrepreneurship
A hub of entrepreneurial activity at The University of Arizona. One of the top centres in US in the field with a nearly 30-year track record and multiple on- and off campus audiences.
A limited-enrolment undergraduate degree stream, an enterpreneurship initiative to all business students; an entrepreneurship-focused MBA and + electives and support services.
McGuire identifies and helps transfer technology and innovations to the market place. It teaches entrepreneurship to early-career business people, schools etc. and provides technical assistance on entrepreneurship activities.
Images credits: [email protected]
McGuire Center for entrepreneurship, UArizona
MENTORS-IN- RESIDENCE
TECHNOLOGY MENTORS
ALTERNATIVE VALUATION
COMMUNICATION MENTORS MOCK LAW FIRM
Create an entrepreneurial INSTITUTION: Monterrey Tech MX
A private university founded by business leaders (1943): 33 campuses+ 6 academic centres in Latin America. Supports both high-tech spin offs and social entrepreneurship.
Mandatory entrepreneurship training since 1985. Programa Emprendedor, Entrepreneurial diploma, Bachelor program in business creation and development, 3 Masters programs through virtual and class room delivery
Interdisciplinary open innovation spaces in most study fields. All campuses have business incubators for for-profit enterprises and ventures that support social and community development.
Images credits: [email protected]
Promote resilience, self-reliance, innovation and ingenuity: team academy, FI
Developed in 1993 in a small town in Finland by a marketing lecturer of Jyvaskyla University of Applied Sciences. Worldwide interest: TAs in 8 countries, 6000 users of methodology, 1800 adult learners, 800 TA alumni, 850 team entrepreneurs
A 3 year program: no classrooms, no lectures, no exams. In first 2 weeks teams of 20 students start developing real businesses. Students learn finance, marketing, leadership & strategy in projects. Half of the students launch their own business.
Coaching programs for entrepreneurs, team leaders, managers and teachers. Over 1000 adult learners graduated with vocational qualifications accredited by the Finnish National Board of Education.
Images credits: [email protected]
Gap btw labour market needs & competencies acquired in HEIS – Graduates’ views (Scale 1-7)
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Use computers and the internet
Use time efficiently
Assert your authority
Come up with new ideas and solutions
Negotiate effectively
Write and speak in a foreign language
Alertness to new opportunities
Coordinate activities
Perform well under pressure Present products, ideas or
reportsKnowledge of other fields
Make your meaning clear to others
Mastery of your own field
Question your own and others' ideas
Mobilize the capacities of others
Write reports, memos or documents
Work productively with others
Rapidly acquire new knowledge
Analytical thinking
Required Acquired
Gaps
Lack of strategic anchoring within
HEIs and HE policy; limited legitimacy
within HEIs
A lack of system coherence and a
co-ordination deficit within and
among HEIs
Weak evidence base and supply-driven delivery
Disconnect between graduate
enterprise, knowledge
transfer & regional growth
How to reform education so that its
supports entrepreneurship and
regional growth?
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reforming education
• Courses with the local/global needs; ALIGN graduate enterprise/entrepreneurship training with regional industry developmentAlign
• Employability skills, work-based learning, internship, entrepreneurialism in all curriculaEmbed
• Learning pathways from schools to LLL to ensure flexible learning, up-skilling, re-training and entrepreneurshipCreate
• Data about labour market needs. DEVELOP student/graduate tracking and USE the data strategically.Develop
• With employers in course design & delivery; CREATE links between support for graduate enterprise development and business support in the local areaCo-operate
JAANA PUUKKATel: +33 6 18 33 26 12 (m)[email protected]: puukka.jaanawww.linkedin.com/in/puukkaFollow my tweets on: @jaanapuukka www.innovationengage.com
