Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions : Delivering on the UNESCO 2013, Beijing Declaration on Building Learning Cities

Annotation This book proposes an alternative strategy to improve and sustain prosperity, through the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in learning cities or city regions. The edited collection provides insights into how entrepreneurship, education, job creation and social inclusion can be aligned through entrepreneurial learning, in the context of territorial development. With rich and varied contributions from a wide field, including policy makers, entrepreneurs, an investment banker, leaders of universities and councils, the voluntary sector, scientists, educators and students, it reviews and assesses how learning cities and regions may become more prosperous by investing in the development of entrepreneurial skills throughout lifelong learning. Reinforced by examples on developing and retaining entrepreneurial people, this book contributes to our understanding of how entrepreneurial learning can be fostered in different city and city-region contexts. It makes an interesting contribution to the field in terms of mapping out complex issues and testing the practical validity of the concept, while also providing rich and insightful case studies centred on the Welsh experience with entrepreneurial learning city regions. The high quality international contributions demonstrate the new worldwide interest in developing an entrepreneurial culture for the benefit of a city or region, rather than an entrepreneurial mind-set for individual benefit. This fascinating subject will be of interest to many social scientists, policymakers, and practitioners. It will be found especially valuable for professionals involved in economic, inclusive and sustainable city or regional development Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Attributes of an Entrepreneurial Learning City Region (Norman Longworth)....Pages 3-24 Learn, Innovate and Prosper-A Perspective on Learning Cities (Simon J. Gibson)....Pages 25-33 University Internationalisation Strategies and Public Engagement (Rebecca Hughes)....Pages 35-57 Entrepreneurial Learning for Sustainable Futures (Alyson Jenkins)....Pages 59-74 Lifelong Learning for All: Our City’s Future (Raúl Valdés-Cotera, Mo Wang)....Pages 75-91 Front Matter ....Pages 93-93 Entrepreneurial Learning: Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours and Attitudes-An Introduction (Gay Haskins)....Pages 95-99 Developing and Evaluating Enhanced Innovative Thinking Skills in Learners (Fiorina Mugione, Andy Penaluna)....Pages 101-120 Women Entrepreneurs in São Paulo, Brazil (Tales Andreassi, Maria José Tonelli)....Pages 121-136 Sustaining Entrepreneurship Education in Hong Kong as a Learning City Through Partnership Building (Christina Wai-Mui Yu, John Chi-Kin Lee)....Pages 137-154 The Role of Entrepreneurial Leadership in City Region Economies: A Case of Developing Small Firm Leaders (Louisa Huxtable-Thomas, Paul Hannon)....Pages 155-179 From Student to Enterprising Researcher (Owen R. Bidder)....Pages 181-187 Front Matter ....Pages 189-189 The Impact of a Research-led Entrepreneurial University on a Regional Economy: Swansea University’s Science and Innovation Campus (Iwan Davies)....Pages 191-210 From Creativity to Enterprise (Christina Slade)....Pages 211-224 Creating Learning Opportunities for the Cities: Community Engagement and Third Mission in the University of Catania (Roberta Piazza)....Pages 225-247 Overcoming Cultural Resistance to City-Regionalism: What Role for Universities? (Stevie Upton)....Pages 249-266 Life Sciences and Health in South West Wales: A Sub-regional Innovation Ecosystem (Gareth Huw Davies, Robert Marc Clement, Louisa Huxtable-Thomas, George Johnson, Brian Lee Perkins, Sian Roderick et al.)....Pages 267-292 Front Matter ....Pages 293-293 Inclusivity and Lifelong Learning: An Introduction (Michael Osborne)....Pages 295-298 Glasgow as a Learning City: The Legacy of the Commonwealth Games (Lynette Jordan)....Pages 299-318 Embedding Entrepreneurial Skills Development in Teacher Education (Kathryn David, Kathryn Penaluna, Elin McCallum, Caroline Usei)....Pages 319-340 The University of the Third Age in Swansea and Beyond (Anthony Hughes)....Pages 341-355 Front Matter ....Pages 357-357 Working in Partnership (Chris Sivers)....Pages 359-362 Building Enterprising Learning Cities: The Pascal International Exchanges (PIE) Experience (Peter Kearns, Denise Reghenzani-Kearns)....Pages 363-377 How to Grow a Digital Cluster in a City Region (Adam Curtis, David Kelly)....Pages 379-393 An Emergent Entrepreneurial Learning City Region: a Case Study of Swansea (Judith James, Jean Preece)....Pages 395-419 Prospects for Developing Entrepreneurial Learning Cities (Arne Carlsen)....Pages 421-426 Back Matter ....Pages 429-435