Entrepreneurship Centres Global Perspectives on their Contributions
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
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Gideon Maas • Paul Jones Editors
Entrepreneurship Centres Global Perspectives on their Contributions to Higher Education Institutions
Editors Gideon Maas International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship Coventry University Coventry, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-47891-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47892-0
Paul Jones International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship Coventry University Coventry, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-47892-0 (eBook)
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PREFACE
In the first book in the series on transformational entrepreneurship (Systemic Entrepreneurship – Contemporary Issues and Case Studies, 2015), the focus was on providing a broad overview of systemic (transformational) entrepreneurship. That book addressed the issues of low and slow socio-economic growth patterns and how a transformational approach can address this dilemma. It was highlighted that systemic entrepreneurship is about enabling change to how entrepreneurs and society act beyond local levels of entrepreneurial engagement. This book uses the first book as a basis and explores how entrepreneurship centres can act as the kingpin within universities to stimulate transformational entrepreneurship. It is well known that entrepreneurship centres are the key leaders in universities s
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