Gideon Maas and Paul Jones (eds): Entrepreneurship centres: global perspectives on their contributions to higher education institutions

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The scientific and technological content of the economy and the level of modernization continue to increase. With the development of global economy entering into the stage of innovation-driven and knowledge-intensive, every country has realized the significance of innovation and entrepreneurship education in cultivating critical innovative thinking and empowering entrepreneurial capabilities. However, how to fit entrepreneurship into the university has been a controversial thing. Morris and Liguori (2016) map out the evolution route of entrepreneurship education institutionalization. It normally was based in existing academic unit at the first beginning, and afterwards transformed to be based in center or institute, as the basis of co-department of entrepreneurship or separate departments and schools of entrepreneurship. Building entities is undoubtedly an effective response to finding a housing place in the university, as illustrated in this book. …