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Workshop held in Sofia, Bulgaria on HEInnovate
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HEINNOVATE REVIEW BULGARIA Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer |Sofia, 26 September 2014
The HEInnovate working definition
The entrepreneurial & innovative HEI is …
• designed to empower students and staff to demonstrate innovation, creativity and enterprise in teaching, research and third mission
• its activities are directed to enhance learning, knowledge production & exchange in a highly complex and changing societal environment
• as an organisation, it is dedicated to create public value via processes of open engagement
The Entrepreneurial & Innovative HEI
www.heinnovate.eu
HEInnovate Review Objectives
Provide an external expert/peer perspective in order to:
1. Identify key barriers & opportunities at HE system and HEI levels
2. Develop recommendations and introduce „learning models“ to remove barriers & to make use of opportunities
1. Preparation (January-March 2014)
2. Study visit (19-23 May) to five case study universities
3. Online surveys of HEI-Leader and students (June - October)
4. Intermediate report on case study universities (July )
5. HEInnovate workshop (September)
6. Final report (October 2014)
Review process - six phases
HEI-Leader and student surveys
Botevgrad
Svishtov
Student Survey
Student Survey &HEI-Leader Survey
HEI-Leader Survey
Student survey – subsample with high entrepreneurial intentions (n=196)
• Gender:
• Study progress:
• Stay on in region?
Barriers in the higher education system
1. Absence of a clear & visible national strategic anchoring of HEIs´ role in local and regional development
2. Separation of teaching and research
3. Legal framework for public private partnerships and public procurement renders for public HEIs business collaboration difficult
4. Burdensome accreditation process
5. Lack of effective HEI-HEI coordination and collaboration at national and regional/local levels
Challenges for HEIs
1. HEIs are struggling to find strategic roles in local development; they are unaware of opportunities
2. Effective involvement of industry and business partners in curricula design & delivery is rare
3. Knowledge exchange activities are largely bound to personal motivation and not part of core-strategy
4. Too few examples of truly interdisciplinary education activities
5. LLL offer is receptive demand-driven instead of proactive demand-setting
6. Organising internships is difficult 7. Barriers in scaling up entrepreneurship promotion from
individual initiatives to core-strategy8. Links with the entrepreneurship ecosystem are largely
underdeveloped
Session 2
Comment:
Current HEI practices in entrepreneurship support and
students` demand
Offer & demand for teaching methods in entrepreneurship education
n: 17 HEIs, 196 students
Offer & demand for start-up support
Provision of financial resources
Mentoring by entrepreneurs
Internationalisation support
Assistance with IP
Support business plan competitions
Mentoring by university staff
Applications for public funds
Access to research results
0% 50% 100%
Offered
Planned
n: 10 HEIs, 196 students
Perceptions of start-up barriers
Finding suitable office space/business premises
Hiring and managing skilled workers
Access to technology and research
Access to public financial support
Having insufficient business management knowledge and skills to implement the business
idea
Lack of a business idea
Having insufficient technical knowledge and skills to implement the business idea
Unfair competition
Bureaucratic hurdles in registering/running a business
Lack of capital
0% 50% 100%
AgreeNo opinionDisagree
n: 196 students