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This chapter deals with the necessary connection among entrepreneurship and regional development, among entrepreneurship and digital economy. These are two of the main topics of this book. Although this bidirectional relationship can be carried out from a number of points of view, we will be focused on how higher education can foster entrepreneurship. The high rate of unemployment among young people, even after university studies, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and their high level of education and training, make us entertain doubts if our present Higher Education System is prepared to solve this serious social problem, and if University can foster an ‘entrepreneurship culture’ in our society and help make the change in our territory.
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Term “skills” is used in a broad sense to what an individual knows, understand and can do.
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Communication related to Europe 2020 Strategy released in March 2010: COM (2010) 2020 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2010:2020:FIN:ES:PDF).
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The second main objective related to higher education consists on reducing the school dropout rates below 10%.
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See en DO C 119 de 28.5.2009, p. 2 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2009:119:0002:0010:ES:PDF).
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Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions—Supporting growth and jobs—an agenda for the modernization of Europe’s higher education systems.
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A new agenda for skills in Europe. Working together to re-inforce the human capital, employability, and competitiveness”, COM (2016) 0381.
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Barometer University—Society, made by Consejo Social de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2015.
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UE-ALCUE Network (University—Company from Latin American, Caribbean, and EU countries).
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Yuste, M.A. (2019). Higher Education and Technological Transference as Tools for Entrepreneurship in Regional Development. In: Cagica Carvalho, L., Rego, C., Lucas, M.R., Sánchez-Hernández, M.I., Backx Noronha Viana, A. (eds) New Paths of Entrepreneurship Development. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96032-6_7
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