The role of business schools in creating national entrepreneurial ecosystems: The case of Egypt and the AUC School of Business

entrepreneurial

Complex Societal Impact Projects Requiring Tri-Sector Collaboration and Cooperation: In today’s time and age, economies worldwide, especially in emerging markets-need an effective and innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem that is government-enabled, private-sector-led, innovation-driven, youth-empowered, and future-oriented (Kamel, 2016). Over the last few decades, the acceleration of digital transformation and the gradual move from high-tech to deep-tech through artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud computing, and big data, coupled with an evolving entrepreneurial mindset, has dominated various societies in developed and emerging economies, given the potential opportunities created and the growing global population of digital natives (Schroeder, 2017).

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Favela Business School

favelas

Brazilian favelas and their peripheries are powerful territories economically, financially, and geographically. Many organisations have seen the potential of these areas but often face the challenge of accessing and building content that is both solid and relevant to the reality, language, and characteristics of favela entrepreneurship. From this scenario and from the partnership of Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) and Central Única das Favelas (CUFA), the Favela Business School was born.

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E4Impact MBA, the training programme dedicated to the new generation of African entrepreneurs

Africa

With the highest entrepreneurship rate in the world (22%) and a rapidly growing demographic population (1.2 billion), Africa is a continent rich in business opportunities. The challenge is to turn its potential into a source of concrete and inclusive development in a reality where the business mortality rate continues to be very high (80%). Among the reasons for this negative statistic is the large skills gap in management and financial planning.

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Entrepreneurship for Good

entrepreneurship for good

Bound by strong humanist values, Live for Good, a not-for-profit association committed to youth and an expert in positive impact entrepreneurship, and CEDEP, the Executive Education Club share a common vision of business.

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Redefining innovation and entrepreneurship

Redefining innovation and entrepreneurship

Saleema Vellani explores the entrepreneurial mindset and considers how the future landscape of personal exploration, employment and industry will require ubiquitous innovation skills of new graduates and business leaders alike.

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Developing entrepreneurship in Russia

SKOLKOVO

The “PRACTICUM Programme” was inaugurated in 2012, the year Vitaly Polekhin came to the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO with the idea for a new educational programme for the founders and CEOs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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Start-up

Emerging economies need an effective entrepreneurial ecosystem that is government-enabled, youth-led, private sector-supported and future-oriented, says Sherif Kamel.

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Growing the impact of management education and scholarship

management education and scholarship

Management is not only taught in business schools. For more than 100 years it has also been taught by a special type of university that is ‘more than a business school’. An international group of university leaders trace the emergence, role and future contributions of ‘universities for business and management’.

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Crowdsourced

Kenneth W Freeman and Howard Thomas outline some of the crowdsourced ideas about the future of business schools and other institutions that emerged from the first Business Education Jam.

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Social intrapreneurs and The Jazz Age

social intrapreneurs and the jazz age

Social intrapreneurs are rarely individual heroes but more like jazz musicians jamming in a group. But sometimes, say David Grayson, Melody McLaren and Heika Spitzeck, they need even bigger groups – a fully orchestrated ‘big band’.

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Rethinking enterprise

rethinking enterprise

Philippe de Woot, in an article based on his latest book, Rethinking the Enterprise, Competitiveness, Technology and Society, argues that economic actions based on ethical and political dimensions are increasingly essential.

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