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Designing an Entrepreneurial Profile in Higher Educational Systems

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Student Entrepreneurship in the Social Knowledge Economy

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The emerging reality of MOOCs confirms that it is at least reductive, or even unlikely, to believe in the possibility of encoding within relatively simple models or patterns a complex phenomenon such as that characterizing the advanced offer of an integrated system of services supporting university education (Roberts 1991; Clarke 1998; Cohen et al. 1998). There is a widespread awareness of the fact that the role of universities has undergone profound changes in recent decades: from institutions dispensing “knowledge” and “research” they switched to organizations also involved in the “economic and social” development of various countries, to the point of acting as regular development agencies, in some cases (Agrawal and Henderson 2002; Branscomb et al. 1999; Geiger 1993; Siegel et al. 2003a, b, 2004; Siegel and Phan 2005; Agarwal et al. 2004; Nerkar and Shane 2003; Zahra et al. 2007; Bok 2003; Carayannis et al. 1998).

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Peruta, M.R.D. (2014). Designing an Entrepreneurial Profile in Higher Educational Systems. In: Student Entrepreneurship in the Social Knowledge Economy. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05567-1_6

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