European Study on the Entrepreneurial Potential of Higher Education

Call for Tenders

The European Commission launches an open call for tenders - N.  EAC/09/2013 – with a view to develop a stronger evidence base of the entrepreneurial potential of higher education and derive lessons for policy development. The study should help in gaining a better understanding of the effective possibilities of Higher Education Institutions in developing entrepreneurial activities, capabilities and characteristics.

The results to be achieved by the contractor are the following:

  • A review and analysis of existing and emerging types and models for realising the entrepreneurial potential of higher education in curricular and extracurricular activities and on an institutional level;
  • Development of a practical set of interrelationships and dependencies of curricular, extracurricular, and institutional factors enabling the development of entrepreneurial potential of higher education in the form of a framework of recommendations;
  • Development of 20 in depth case studies.

The study should look at various participants involved in higher education and entrepreneurship: higher education institutions, students, lectures and staff, entrepreneurs, incubators, companies and businesses of all types, public bodies, governments, charities and any other relevant stakeholder involved.

Deadline: 9 September 2013

Further information is available on the European Commission's web site: http://ec.europa.eu/education/calls/0913_en.htm