The six key elements of entrepreneurial further education university

There are six key elements of entrepreneurial university, according to Professor duress Ramjugernath, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa - good leadership and management, capacity incentives, entrepreneurship in teaching and learning, the culture of entrepreneurship, partnership stakeholders and internationalization.

Innovation and entrepreneurship for development and nation-building is what the university really had to do, he is a pro vice chancellor of innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship.

"But the university so that subsidies are driven by formulas, so they are guided by the world rankings, so you are guided as the number one or number two in the country in terms of research, they have lost perspective on what it means to be a university and what it means to build a nation . "


Ramjugernath was delivering a keynote address at the South African Technology Network Eighth Annual International Conference on the 2015 "Education for entrepreneurship for economic reconstruction", held in the Science Park in the Vaal University of Technology from October 19 to 21

The dizzying pace of change

He uses a smart phone to describe the dizzying pace of change. Although it took 15,000 years for people to go from moving on all fours, sitting in front of the computer, it took only 30 years to go from there to walk with a mobile device.

"There is more computing power in your hands today, but NASA scientists had at their disposal when they put a man on the moon."

Technology and innovation are enabling today's rapid development, and universities are drivers of innovation. "As soon as we realized that we have to realize that we must develop. The University can not stand in the way we have been doing."

Hundreds of years ago, universities are about providing academic training for the privileged elite. Today, the training of people for labor.

"But we've lost the plot. How many of the graduates we produce are fit for purpose for the work force? We are too far down the line, where we measure the success of universities in the number of enrolled and graduated gone. We are not too concerned about quality, because then our subsidies will come down . "

Employers are "extremely concerned" about the quality of graduates of universities produce, and whether they have what it takes national and global level, he said. Employers have to invest "enormous amounts of money" and time to training graduates.

Universities also do not respond sufficiently to the development of knowledge-based economy. They had to change plans and programs and approaches to tackle national and global challenges and the need to become more enterprising.

Ramjugernath suggested six key elements of entrepreneurial universities.