<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper aims to investigate the experience and to identify the drivers of transforming traditional universities into Entrepreneurial Universities for ensuring sustainable higher education in Latvia. Due to the wide scope, Entrepreneurial University characteristics, the present research study is limited and focuses on the university providing access to students to business incubation facilities, relationships with business incubators for students, as well openness of university to collaboration and knowledge co-creation with its external stakeholders. Analyses of the experiences of universities of Latvia business incubators providing services to students, as well cooperation between higher education institutions (HEI) and local governments and entrepreneurs show that there is a positive trend. In opposite, such a trend can’t be observed towards building Entrepreneurial Universities in Latvia over the past 5 years. The results of the survey show that there is a need put higher efforts to assist young entrepreneurs in building cooperation networks and strengthening knowledge co-creation with external stakeholders.</p></abstract>

This paper aims to investigate the experience and to identify the drivers of transforming traditional universities into Entrepreneurial Universities for ensuring sustainable higher education in Latvia. Due to the wide scope, Entrepreneurial University characteristics, the present research study is limited and focuses on the university providing access to students to business incubation facilities, relationships with business incubators for students, as well openness of university to collaboration and knowledge co-creation with its external stakeholders. Analyses of the experiences of universities of Latvia business incubators providing services to students, as well cooperation between higher education institutions (HEI) and local governments and entrepreneurs show that there is a positive trend. In opposite, such a trend can’t be observed towards building Entrepreneurial Universities in Latvia over the past 5 years. The results of the survey show that there is a need put higher efforts to assist young entrepreneurs in building cooperation networks and strengthening knowledge co-creation with external stakeholders.

The Transformation of Traditional Universities into Entrepreneurial Universities to Ensure Sustainable Higher Education

Liepaja University, Management Sciences Institute,

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

This paper aims to investigate the experience and to identify the drivers of transforming traditional universities into Entrepreneurial Universities for...

The Transformation of Traditional Universities into Entrepreneurial Universities to Ensure Sustainable Higher Education

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2016

Páginas: 75 - 88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jtes-2016-0016

Palabras clave
Entrepreneurial University, student business incubators, entrepreneurship education, Quintuple Helix Model, Sustainable higher education

© 2016 Veronika Bikse et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Transformation of Traditional Universities into Entrepreneurial Universities to Ensure Sustainable Higher Education

Publicado en línea: 30 dic 2016

Páginas: 75 - 88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jtes-2016-0016

Palabras claveEntrepreneurial University, student business incubators, entrepreneurship education, Quintuple Helix Model, Sustainable higher education

© 2016 Veronika Bikse et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Entrepreneurial University, student business incubators, entrepreneurship education, Quintuple Helix Model, Sustainable higher education