2024-10-21
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
BS574
UN research project sharing: the case of advancing entrepreneurial universities in Africa
Organised by: RCE 1 (Sustainability and ESG)
The seminar invites the guest speaker to introduce experience in applying for UN research projects and the difference between research reports and research articles
Abstract:
Universities have been increasingly expected to transcend their conventional teaching and research missions to incorporate a third mission, which emphasizes enhanced external engagement and direct contributions to the socioeconomic development of their localities. The third mission expands the active role of the university as a catalyst for entrepreneurship and thus for the socioeconomic development of countries, thereby paving the way for the development of entrepreneurial universities. In an entrepreneurial university, the three missions will complement one another to realize the entrepreneurial strategy and establish entrepreneurship as a key competence of the institution. The present report is aimed at enriching the understanding of the status of development of entrepreneurial universities in Africa.
Presenters:
Dr Yee Kwan Tang is a senior lecture at University of Glasgow. Her expertise is in international entrepreneurship and she had working experience in UN. Her publication appears in some good journals such as Journal of Business venturing, International Business reivew etc. Now she is taking a entrepreneurship project from United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. One of the research report of this project has been accessible from UNECA website: https://www.uneca.org/advancing-entrepreneurial-universities-in-africa. One of the paper of this project is under review, so cannot be shared at this moment.