Full Description
Focusing on the role entrepreneurship centres can play within the UK and other countries; this edited volume explores the effective construction of viable and sustainable entrepreneurship centres. It questions how these Higher Education Centres contribute to enterprise and entrepreneurship curriculum enhancement, research, and support to entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Centres responds to the renewed focus on Higher Education Institutions to play a meaningful role in socio-economic development and the need for such centres to act as an equal component to the traditional roles of teaching and research within universities. With case studies from the UK, Africa, Europe, and Canada, this collection contributes to the debate on whether entrepreneurship centres can and should play an important role in entrepreneurship activities within HEIs.
Contents
Part I Introduction to Entrepreneurship centres.- Chapter 1 An Overview of Transformation Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 2 The Role of Entrepreneurship Centres.- Part II Cases of entrepreneurship centres within the UK.- Chapter 3 Coventry University.- Chapter 4 Lancaster University.- Chapter 5 Scotland Entrepreneurship Centre.- Part III European, Canadian and African Entrepreneurship Centres.- Chapter 6 EDEM Business School, Spain.- Chapter 7 The Hunter Business Centre, Canada.- Chapter 8 Santander International Entrepreneurship Centre.- Chapter 9 Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.- Part IV Guidelines for maintaining sustainable entrepreneurial centres.- Chapter 10 Conclusion.
