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Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions

Delivering on the UNESCO 2013, Beijing Declaration on Building Learning Cities

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Editors:
  1. Judith James

    1. Strategic Regional Collaboration, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

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  2. Jean Preece

    1. Department of Adult Continuing Education, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

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  3. Raúl Valdés-Cotera

    1. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Introduces strategies for improving engagement of citizens in learning cities and regions through training and education
  • Delivers innovative content on the economic development of city regions involving lifelong learning
  • Reviews the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning initiative to conceptualize the learning city
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. The Global Perspective-Identifying a Need for Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Attributes of an Entrepreneurial Learning City Region

      • Norman Longworth
      Pages 3-24

    3. Learn, Innovate and Prosper-A Perspective on Learning Cities

      • Simon J. Gibson
      Pages 25-33

    4. University Internationalisation Strategies and Public Engagement

      • Rebecca Hughes
      Pages 35-57

    5. Entrepreneurial Learning for Sustainable Futures

      • Alyson Jenkins
      Pages 59-74

    6. Lifelong Learning for All: Our City’s Future

      • Raúl Valdés-Cotera, Mo Wang
      Pages 75-91

  3. Entrepreneurial Skills and Attitudes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Entrepreneurial Learning: Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours and Attitudes-An Introduction

      • Gay Haskins
      Pages 95-99

    3. Developing and Evaluating Enhanced Innovative Thinking Skills in Learners

      • Fiorina Mugione, Andy Penaluna
      Pages 101-120

    4. Women Entrepreneurs in São Paulo, Brazil

      • Tales Andreassi, Maria José Tonelli
      Pages 121-136

    5. Sustaining Entrepreneurship Education in Hong Kong as a Learning City Through Partnership Building

      • Christina Wai-Mui Yu, John Chi-Kin Lee
      Pages 137-154

    6. The Role of Entrepreneurial Leadership in City Region Economies: A Case of Developing Small Firm Leaders

      • Louisa Huxtable-Thomas, Paul Hannon
      Pages 155-179

    7. From Student to Enterprising Researcher

      • Owen R. Bidder
      Pages 181-187

  4. The University Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. The Impact of a Research-led Entrepreneurial University on a Regional Economy: Swansea University’s Science and Innovation Campus

      • Iwan Davies
      Pages 191-210

    3. From Creativity to Enterprise

      • Christina Slade
      Pages 211-224

    4. Creating Learning Opportunities for the Cities: Community Engagement and Third Mission in the University of Catania

      • Roberta Piazza
      Pages 225-247

    5. Overcoming Cultural Resistance to City-Regionalism: What Role for Universities?

      • Stevie Upton
      Pages 249-266

    6. Life Sciences and Health in South West Wales: A Sub-regional Innovation Ecosystem

      • Gareth Huw Davies, Robert Marc Clement, Louisa Huxtable-Thomas, George Johnson, Brian Lee Perkins, Sian Roderick et al.
      Pages 267-292
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About this book

This book proposes an alternative strategy to improve and sustain prosperity, through the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in learning cities or city regions. The edited collection provides insights into how entrepreneurship, education, job creation and social inclusion can be aligned through entrepreneurial learning, in the context of territorial development. With rich and varied contributions from a wide field, including policy makers, entrepreneurs, an investment banker, leaders of universities and councils,  the voluntary sector, scientists, educators and students, it reviews and assesses how learning cities and regions may become more prosperous by investing in the development of entrepreneurial skills throughout lifelong learning. Reinforced by examples on developing and retaining entrepreneurial people, this book contributes to our understanding of how entrepreneurial learning can be fostered in different city and city-region contexts. It makes an interesting contributionto the field in terms of mapping out complex issues and testing the practical validity of the concept, while also providing rich and insightful case studies centred on the Welsh experience with entrepreneurial learning city regions. The high quality international contributions demonstrate the new worldwide interest in developing an entrepreneurial culture for the benefit of a city or region, rather than an entrepreneurial mind-set for individual benefit.  This fascinating subject will be of interest to many social scientists, policymakers, and practitioners. It will be found especially valuable for professionals involved in economic, inclusive and sustainable city or regional development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Strategic Regional Collaboration, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Judith James

  • Department of Adult Continuing Education, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Jean Preece

  • UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Hamburg, Germany

    Raúl Valdés-Cotera

About the editors

Judith James has experience in higher education management, particularly in adult continuing education, equality and diversity, employability, entrepreneurial learning and widening participation. Her current role is Head of Strategic Regional Collaboration at Swansea University.  She was a member of the UNESCO International Expert Group on Developing Learning Cities and contributed to the development of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. Judith was influential in bringing the Learning City initiative to Swansea and developed the Swansea Case Study in Unlocking the Potential of Urban Communities (UNESCO, 2015). 


Raúl Valdés-Cotera is a Senior Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and the Programme Manager of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. For more than ten years he has been working in international organisations in the field of lifelong learning and adult education. He has led various research and advocacy projects such as the regional report of the current situation for adult education in Latin America and more recently the Glossary for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. He co-edited (with J. Yang) Conceptual Evolution and Policy Developments in Lifelong Learning (UNESCO, 2011).


Jean Preece is an experienced ICT Programme Manager and European Project Manager in the Department for Adult Continuing Education. She has managed the training of over 3,000 disadvantaged community learners in ICT and personal development with great success in achieving employment outcomes, including self-employment. Her project 'Swansea Arrivals' supported refugees and asylum seekers to integrate into the community. She co-led a successful Grundtvig 3 year project (2003-2006) 'Parenting in a Multicultural European City' with eleven European partners. She has also participated in Transversal, Horizon, and Lingua projects, including the XPLOIT Multilateral projectwhich focused on the development of learning regions. Jean’s publications focus on the use of ICT training to enhance widening participation in higher education.


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