South African university entrepreneurship education

Student Attitude towards Entrepreneurship: A South African and Dutch Comparison

Unemployment among the youth is a significant problem in South Africa. Large corporations and the public sector simply cannot create enough jobs. Too many youths in South Africa currently do not consider entrepreneurship as an option in order to become independent. Unlike the youth of the Netherlands, South African youth prefer to find employment in the public or private sector. The Netherlands...

Entrepreneurship , University Research , and Growth : European North vs . South Panagiotis

The problem that this chapter tries to solve, is to find the relation between entrepreneurship, university research, and economic growth. The contribution of the present analysis is that, we aim to underline a) the role of university entrepreneurship in economic growth, b) to identify the reasons why this role is underdeveloped in the European South compared to the European North and c) to sugg...

Troubling Diversity in South African Education

To understand how issues of diversity have been handled in South African education, it is necessary to explore the prevailing educational approaches in recent years and the ways they have been contested. In my lecture, I will explore limitations of a multiculturalist approach in what is seen, in over-simplified terms, as the ‘Rainbow Nation’, and will argue for an approach to diversity that is ...

Entrepreneurship Education in Tanzania

Entrepreneurship and University Technology Transfer

This paper argues that it is important to devote greater attention to the study of entrepreneurship in technology transfer in the light of greater government attention, the growth in the phenomenon, the need to identify how wealth can be created from spin-outs, changes in the cultures of universities and differences with technological entrepreneurship in general. The paper summarizes the contri...