Advancing Entrepreneurship Education in Universities by Robert James Crammond

Author:Robert James Crammond
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030351915
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

4.3.1 The Demands for an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

As aforementioned, demands from students, government, and immediate regions all display a need or desire for an entrepreneurial university (Clark 1998; Fetters et al. 2010; Fayolle and Redford 2014). The benefits of entrepreneurship are widely voiced through academic and governmental reporting, endorsing related collaboration, venture creation, spin-offs, and knowledge transfer activities seen within universities (EC 2012, 2015). Increased funding has been noted in recent years towards entrepreneurialism and innovation (The Scottish Government 2016). Institutions are now seeking to brand and market their universities and colleges as entrepreneurial to attract students into enrolling with them, and realising their ambitions within an educational, vocational, and progressive environment (Gibb et al. 2009; Neck and Greene 2011; Fayolle and Redford 2014; McAdam et al. 2016).

As is the case with many taught disciplines however, not all universities can suitably provide such innovative programmes or entrepreneurial opportunities to a high level witnessed from other institutions. There are implications towards cost and personnel, as well as a requirement to shift the institutional culture towards patterns of entrepreneurial behaviour (Burns 2011; Gibb et al. 2013). Traditionally, a wide debate has taken place with universities being accused of denigrating vocational modes or approaches of learning, as they wish to definitively distinguish between education and more college-like, workplace developmental courses (Hager and Hyland 2003). Rothaermel et al. (2007) assert that it is therefore difficult to witness and determine patterns without establishing comparable research between education and industry examples.

Fact Box 5

Past and present leaders within the United Kingdom, such as Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon, have regarded entrepreneurialism as serving the public, and something which should be encouraged by all, in improving society.

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