The Role of the University in the Entrepreneurial Society

FIRES Conference Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Enterpreneurial Society Utrecht University 14 October 2016 Prof. Dr. Marijk van der Wende Dean of Graduate Studies Professor of Higher Education Utrecht University

The knowledge economy: growing demand for high skilled labour [projection: 16M]

The Entrepreneurial Society: potential for job creation 1.4M 2.7M 4.5M

Growing supply of high qualifications

Polarisation of demand vs linear upscaling: risk for a skills mismatch

Vertical mismatch: Over-qualification or unfilled demand

Vertical mismatch may emerge more in certain countries than in others. Mobility of the highly skilled towards countries with high R&D investment Circular mobility or brain drain? Concentration of minds in particular countries / regions While other countries may be harmed by losing graduates Increasing disparities among European countries

No Convergence between Countries in the Share of Higher Qualifications

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(Zeccina & Anfossi, 2015; UNESCO, 2016)

Increasing disparities: The ERC effect

(OECD Education at a Glance, 2015)

Mobile PhD’s: Brain Gain for OECD

International doctoral students 24% of enrolments in OECD > 40% in Switzerland. the UK, and the Netherlands A large proportion of these students are from non-OECD economies.

Institutional aspects: open borders & culture

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Research universities and global flows of talent

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Skills for the Entrepreneurial Society

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SOFT SKILLS

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Back to the basics….. Digital and data literacy, including underlying knowledge of logic

and maths, are growing in importance and should be considered as

transferable skills across disciplines.

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This more profound

knowledge and

understanding of digital

processes and technology

should be distinguished

from the simple ability to

use applications.

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Enterpreneurial people

Entrepreneurial universities

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(Stam et al, 2016)

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Can all universities become entrepreneurial?

External conditions: • embeddedness • the regional eco-system • International connections Internal drivers: • Mission • Incentive systems • Faculty values • Engineering: the technological core • Business school: the entrepreneurial core Teaching & learning: • Curriculum • Career services • Graduate education!

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MIT’s Networked Apprentice Model for Graduate Education

Stanford’s Graduate Professional Development Framework

Fostering interdisciplinary work and

innovation in graduate education

Co-sponsored by:

Key Questions: How can we engage graduate students more in interdisciplinary research, innovation, business and entreprise? How we can best prepare graduate students, the next generation of researchers and professionals, for the new dynamics of research, knowledge transfer, professional practice, and entrepreneurship? How to encourage creativity, openness to interact with new stakeholders (public, citizens and users), to sharing risk, and in fact, to admitting to uncertainty?

"The mission of a good university is to train students for certainty and to educate them for uncertainty. This is what Dare to cross over! is all about."

Prof. dr. Helga Nowotny (key note speaker

Former President of the ERC)

Thank you!

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