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Rethinking the University System: A Strategic Roadmap Towards the Entrepreneurial University Model

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Rethinking universities and higher education learning systems to promote the mindset and capabilities needed to trigger entrepreneurial initiatives has become paramount. Entrepreneurial learning requires unplanned, emergent, short-term and non-sequential development processes (Atherton 2007; Gibb 2002). In addition, the practical and emergent values of entrepreneurial learning emphasise innovative educational methods and pedagogical techniques for facilitating experiential learning, as opposed to the teaching of general principles (Honig 2004). Such values challenge the current linear academic systems and call for learning strategies, cultures, structures and processes that transcend planned knowledge transfer and acquisition (Rae 2009).

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Secundo, G., Moustaghfir, K. (2016). Rethinking the University System: A Strategic Roadmap Towards the Entrepreneurial University Model. In: Passiante, G., Romano, A. (eds) Creating Technology-Driven Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59156-2_5

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