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Inclusive Internationalisation as a Driver of the Institutional Entrepreneurial Agenda in Higher Education

The entrepreneurial agenda is ranked highly among the priorities of many universities worldwide. Success in building the entrepreneurial competencies of students depends on the modernisation of curricula and training content in the field of entrepreneurship. The drive for the creation of internationally relevant and competitive teaching content can come from within an organisation or through external influences. With respect to latter, two channels have established themselves as leading among European universities in recent years, namely international quality accreditation requirements and mobility- aligned cooperation schemes. There is a general consensus that both channels have the potential to improve organisational teaching competencies, but whether this potential can be materialised across all settings is a largely unanswered question. Language barriers, tradition and resistance to change are only some of the factors that may inhibit the desired knowledge flow and the development of competencies. The objective of this chapter is to explore how inclusive internationalisation shapes the entrepreneurship teaching and training content within higher education institutions (HEIs) as part of their overall entrepreneurial agenda. The analysis focuses on two HEIs from advancing economies with weak entrepreneurial climates and tradition- governed educational systems, where resistance to externally induced change may be considerable. We focus on incentives arising through international quality accreditation requirements and international collaboration projects aiming to develop teaching programmes. Through the use of case studies examining several leading universities, we show that internationalisation has an impact on entrepreneurship curricula only when coupled with institutional commitment towards the strengthening of international reputation, internal openness towards change and concerns over institutional survival.

entrepreneurial competencies ; Croatia ; higher education

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