Sweden has succeeded to maintain a high level of growth and development and has managed to sustain highly ranked position among the world’s developed countries. In this regard, Swedish universities are playing a vital role in supporting innovation and entrepreneurship at all levels and developing Swedish knowledge economy. This paper is aiming to draw on the experiences of two leading Swedish u...

Since 1995 the teaching of entrepreneurship has become something of a growth industry in Scotland, largely as a result of the Scottish Business Birthrate Strategy initiated by Scottish Enterprise. Many of the Centres for Entrepreneurship that exist to co-ordinate entrepreneurship teaching in Higher Education support teaching by the case method and are active in engaging entrepreneurs in the tea...

Knowledge-infused clusters, involving governmental and university, as well as firm actors are the epitome of contemporary economic development strategy. The role of Southern Oregon University (SOU) in the inception of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) gives rise to a model for education-focused universities to play a significant role in local economic development through creation of cultura...

A review of the entrepreneurship education literature reveals that a more sophisticated understanding of the impact of the differing pedagogical approaches is required. This paper starts to address this by offering the concept of self-efficacy and its measurements as one way forward for both research and practice. We argue that self-efficacy provides a robust and legitimate construct that can b...

corporate entrepreneurship is one the key factors for long term success of family firms. therefore, continuing the entrepreneurial behaviors in the following generations of the family firm, which is called transgenerational entrepreneurship, is of paramount importance. among different factors, the successor has a key role in the development of entrepreneurship in the firm. so, the family firm m...