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Entrepreneurship Centres

Global Perspectives on their Contributions to Higher Education Institutions

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Follows on from the editor’s previous book Systemic Entrepreneurship

  • Provides up to date reflections of current research and findings in entrepreneurship centres

  • Explores how information can be utilised by policy and key decision makers to support their activities

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction to Entrepreneurship Centres

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. An Overview of Transformation Entrepreneurship

      • Gideon Maas, Paul Jones
      Pages 3-10
    3. The Role of Entrepreneurship Centres

      • Gideon Maas, Paul Jones
      Pages 11-16
  3. Cases of Entrepreneurship Centres within the UK

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-18
    2. Coventry University

      • Joan Lockyer
      Pages 19-40
    3. Lancaster University

      • Fionnuala Schultz, Helen Fogg, Eleanor Hamilton, Sarah Jack
      Pages 41-59
  4. European, Canadian and African Entrepreneurship Centres

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. EDEM Business School (Spain)

      • Martina Luckanicova, Andrea Conchado
      Pages 81-96
    3. Santander International Entrepreneurship Centre, University of Cantabria (Spain)

      • Federico Gutiérrez-Solana Salcedo, Inés Rueda Sampedro, Kerstin Maier
      Pages 97-110
  5. Guidelines for Maintaining Sustainable Entrepreneurship Centres

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 153-156

About this book

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.

Reviews

“This book can be a timely collection to meet the needs of changing patterns of economic development. It provides practical examples of entrepreneurship centres which explore the path to the capitalization of knowledge and the commercialization of innovation. Every case study is interpreted in a comprehensive and systematic way. Not only can we comprehend its operating mode, but also feel the evolving process.” (Hao Ni and Guanshuang Han, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Vol. 14, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Gideon Maas, Paul Jones

About the editors

Gideon Maas is Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. Previously the Director of Futures Entrepreneurship Centre at Plymouth University, he has created entrepreneurship centres at various universities during his career.

Paul Jones is Deputy Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. Paul is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Management Education. He has published widely including one edited book, 48 journals and over 100 conference papers. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Entrepreneurship Centres

  • Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives on their Contributions to Higher Education Institutions

  • Editors: Gideon Maas, Paul Jones

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47892-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47891-3Published: 20 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83851-9Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47892-0Published: 07 February 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 156

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability Management

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eBook USD 44.99
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Softcover Book USD 59.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 59.99
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