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Øresund Entrepreneurship
Academy- Entrepreneurship education in a EU-
perspective Christian Vintergaard, PhD
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Good• Entrepreneurship education is a global phenomenon and
is continuing to grow– Growth in provision; activity; engagement– Growth in demand by students and the business community
• The universities and waking up from their beauty sleep• Governments and European Commission are starting to
speak the language• We know that entrepreneurship education is the key
driver for national and regional development, but did you know that only that less than 5% of young people in Europe have access to entrepreneurship education in school?
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Bad• Students believe that higher education will not contribute to
achieving their aspirations - teaching does not reflect business • Narrow use of pedagogies; lack of curriculum which include:
– Theory and practice – Cross disciplinarily
• Lack of entrepreneurial experience from educators• Focus on teaching/content rather than learning processes• Too little government support!!• Growth in demand from high tech, humanities and social science
subject areas, but only few that can teach the subjects• Entrepreneurship is often marginalized and fragile at universities
– Individual universities have difficulties in carrying out the task alone
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Denmark 2.4 millionSweden 1.2 millionTotal 3.6 million
East Denmark + South Sweden
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Profile of Øresund• Knowledge based industry• Highly educated population• Well developed
infrastructure• High quality of life
Good foundation for entrepreneurship activities
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Knowledge based industry• Ranked 7th among EU regions in the fields of
high-tech manufacturing and knowledge intensive services
• Scandinavia’s largest clusters in the fields of ICT, Life Science and foods
• Innovations such as the Bluetooth technology, ultrasound scanning and dialysis.
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Highly educated population
• 12 universities with 150,000 students
• 6,500 PhD students
• 14,000 researchers
• 85 % of the population speaks English
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Well developed infrastructure
• Gateway to the Baltic Market
• Well developed intermodal infrastructure with little congestions
• Copenhagen International Airport – Northern Europe's largest airport
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High quality of life•60 theatres and 130 art galleries•Northern Europe’s largest music festival
– The Roskilde Festival •6 symphony orchestras•90 golf courses•10 restaurants in the Michelin Guide•Two well-developed welfare systems•Free education
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• An competence center (in entrepreneurship education) and fund for the 12 member universities in the Øresund region.
• Physical presents in Copenhagen and Lund• Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy will unite and develop
strong competencies and best practices in entrepreneurship education for the universities in the region. – Unite and develop new entrepreneurship courses – Close collaboration with regional and international business
and other innovative organizations• The Øresund regions large potential is in:
– Start-up companies – Corporate entrepreneurship (and spinn-offs)
• The academy will also help to fulfill regional and national goals: to be among the leading growing regions of the world
About Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy
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Vision
• All university students in the Øresund region are offered entrepreneurship courses that fit their wants and needs. – Broad coordinated offering– Intensive marketing of the offerings
Mission• The Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy will support the development
of entrepreneurship courses and market the offerings broadly.• Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy will be an well respected
international academy for entrepreneurship education.• Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy contributes to regional and
international growth by increasing the number of students who create their own firms and who increase the level of innovation in established.
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The “Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy Education Matrix”
Intrapreneurship
Entrepreneurship
FinancingLaw
Practice
Interactive
Multi- disciplin
ary
International
Idea
Beginning
Growth
Running
EntrepreneurshipContent
EntrepreneurshipPedagogies
Pro
ject M
atu
rity
Business-plans Seed
Capital
Creativity In large
firms
Creativity
Spin-offs
IPR
Privateequity
Internationaloperations
Business- planning
Pre-seedCapital Many
different pedagogie
s for teaching
the subjects
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