Sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practice in new international book

By Lise Aaboen, professor, NTNU

Engage contributes to a new book by sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practices in three chapters highlighting the CERN Screening Week, the Blast off Week at Nord and the Venture Creation Program at NTNU.

The new book “Innovation in Global Entrepreneurship Education: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Practice” is edited by Heidi M Neck from Babson College (US) and visiting Professor at Engage together with Yipeng Liu from University of Reading (UK) and consists of three parts: Building bridges across the university for entrepreneurship; Teaching and learning entrepreneurship; The impact of entrepreneurship education and new directions.

Best practices

The book illustrates the challenges faced by educators and creative methods for tackling them, offering useful insights in an international comparison. Sharing lessons and best practices enables a juxtaposing and leveraging of experiences from different parts of the world rather than a one size fits all approach.

Engage contributes to the book by sharing Norwegian entrepreneurship practices in three chapters highlighting the CERN Screening Week, the Blast off Week at Nord and the Venture Creation Program at NTNU. During CERN Screening Week, the students carry out feasibility studies on CERN technology while the students at Blast off week solve actual challenges in collaboration with regional companies and municipalities. 

Venture Creation Program

The experiences shared focus on the organization of these intensive camp-like weeks in terms of how to integrate the weeks in the courses, how to collaborate with stakeholders and how to utilize previous students as facilitators in the course. The third chapter emphasize that the ventures created for learning as part of the Venture Creation Program continue to grow and provide value long after graduation.

Contributors from Engage include: Lise Aaboen, Torgeir Aadland, Marianne  Arntzen-Nordqvist, Dag Håkon Haneberg, Karoline Kaspersen, Bjørg Riibe Ramskjell and Roger Sørheim

You can read more about the book here

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About the book
In the book you can read about entrepreneurship education practices at the following universities: Babson College (USA),TBS Business School (France), Ulster University (Northern Ireland), FACENS (Brazil), University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Waseda University (Japan), Almaty Management University (Kazakhstan), Universidad de Piura (Peru), Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), CETYS Universidad (Mexico), The American University in Cairo (Egypt), FLAME University (India), EAE Business School (Spain), Bennett University (India), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), EDEM School of Business (Spain), Nord University (Norway), Université Laval (Canada)