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Hahn, Davide; Brumana, Mara; Minola, Tommaso – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
While research on Entrepreneurial University has largely focused on the support to venture creation, its contribution to youth employment and society might be much broader. Entrepreneurial capabilities and attitudes students acquire at universities are crucial also in waged jobs, and firms need employees predisposed to act entrepreneurially to…
Descriptors: College Students, Entrepreneurship, Youth Employment, Occupational Aspiration
McCauley-Smith, Catherine; Smith, Sue; Nantunda, Liz; Zhu, Xiaoxian – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The roles universities are seen to play have changed significantly over the last 25 years. The concept of higher education has, and, continues to morph from a distanced, unengaged ivory tower to a highly engaged community-based concept. Yet there is little in the literature about how universities viewed as 'anchor institutions' support…
Descriptors: College Role, Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, School Business Relationship
Vivar-Simon, Maria; Errasti, Nekane; Markuerkiaga, Leire – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Cooperation between universities and business is manifest in a wide range of activities related to the three missions of the entrepreneurial university: education, research and entrepreneurship. However, the vast majority of University-Business Cooperation (UBC) literature has focused on R&D-related activities. This bias has given rise to a…
Descriptors: Universities, School Business Relationship, Entrepreneurship, Manufacturing Industry
Nabi, Ghulam; Walmsley, Andreas; Akhtar, Imran – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
At a time of growing interest in graduate entrepreneurship, this study focuses on the role of mentoring in developing students' entrepreneurial careers in the Early Years of University (EYU). An integrated conceptual framework is presented that combines mentoring functions and entrepreneurial development (entrepreneurial intentions and nascent…
Descriptors: Mentors, Entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen
Berggren, Caroline; Olofsson, Anders – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
European Union policies emphasise the importance of entrepreneurship and self-employment to maintain economic growth, a solution influenced by the USA and research from schools of business. There are expectations of higher education graduates that they are innovative, will start businesses and will employ others. However, transferring a solution…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, Gender Differences
Bruno, Giuseppe; Diglio, Antonio; Kalinowski, T. Bartosz; Piccolo, Carmela; Rippa, Pierluigi – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, we propose a methodology to support the Curriculum Design and Development (CDD) process with the aim of aligning competences provided by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with the ones required by companies. The proposed methodology stems from the identification of companies' training needs and aims at classifying a set of…
Descriptors: Universities, School Business Relationship, Energy Conservation, Program Descriptions
Arranz, N.; Arroyabe, M. F.; Fdez. de Arroyabe, J. C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This paper studies entrepreneurial intentions in undergraduate students and the obstacles perceived by the students in the process of starting their own business. Using a sample of 1053 undergraduate students from Andalusia universities, this study explores attitudes, capacities and social environment to determine the profile of university's…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Students, Barriers, Student Attitudes
Olazaran, Mikel; Albizu, Eneka; Otero, Beatriz; Lavía, Cristina – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Twenty years since educational reforms were implemented in Spain aiming at the modernisation of the vocational education system and at the improvement of its educational and developmental functions, relationships between education and industry have not been widely analysed. This study reviews the recent international literature on the topic and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, School Business Relationship, Foreign Countries, Educational Development
Sutherland, Matthew; Thompson, David; Edirisingha, Prabash – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Attracting international students has become a strategic priority for UK immigration policy as well as for British universities. However, research shows that there are emergent intercultural barriers that challenge international students' carrier aspirations and inhibit their ability to find employment. Also, small business employers (SMEs) are…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, International Education, Foreign Students, Immigration
Hughes, Tim; Webber, Don; O'Regan, Nicholas – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Universities, across the globe, are increasingly judged on social and economic impact. An important initiative in the UK is the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which assessed the wider impact of university research. The Impact Case Studies, produced for REF 2014, provide a rich new source of information to explore the wider impact of…
Descriptors: Universities, Economic Impact, Research Utilization, Relevance (Education)
Thatcher, James; Alao, Hanan; Brown, Christopher J.; Choudhary, Shahriar – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (1996) chaired by Lord Dearing envisioned a university sector central to the UK's knowledge-based economy. With successive government support the university-business partnership ideology has been put into practice. Widening participation has increased in emphasis over recent years, providing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Experiential Learning
Cheong, Kee-Cheok; Hill, Christopher; Fernandez-Chung, Rozilini; Leong, Yin-Ching – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Malaysia has made significant progress in advancing access to education over the last two decades, having achieved the education goals of the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Unfortunately, this has not been accompanied by quality improvement, with reports of "unemployable" graduates a frequent refrain. This paper reports on a study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Employers, Employer Attitudes