Research Seminar | UN research project sharing: the case of advancing entrepreneurial universities in Africa

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.

 

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